The intimate relationship between bureaucratic violence and social inequality with irregular immigrants in Portugal: Brazilian women, labor precarity, and xenophobia - Ana Luiza Silva Miranda

This article aims to address the intimate relationship between bureaucratic violence in Portugal against irregular Brazilian immigrants and social inequality. The situation of irregularity limits immigrants’ access to the spheres that make up public life in society and simultaneously restricts their opportunities and working conditions in the host country. To carry out a solid ethnographic article, the life stories method was used in conjunction with formal and informal interviews. Thus, through interviews focused on the migrant experience of these women and theoretical analysis, it was possible to understand how the precarity of the irregular period constitutes a catalyst for social exclusion and segregation of this specific migrant group, Brazilians in Portugal.

Article by Ana Luiza Silva Miranda, illustrated by Noa M.