O controle migratório nas fronteiras do Brasil durante a pandemia: sinais do autoritarismo à nossa porta

Abstract

The closure of borders was a measure taken by most countries facing the Covid-19 pandemic, including Brazil, through interministerial ordinances of the federal government. The purpose of this research is to analyze such ordinances, what are the motivations of the Executive Branch, and what these acts mean for democracy and migratory rights. Through the historical-deductive method, using bibliographic research, a theoretical review of bureaucratic and authoritarian government was carried out in Arendt's perspective. Through documentary research (ordinances, Public Civil Action and reports), the legality of the ordinances that they determined to be migratory restrictions was analyzed. It was concluded that the closing of borders, in Brazil, is an authoritarian political project of migratory containment, not of the virus: the interministerial ordinances under analysis represent the use of bureaucracy by the political power to subvert the legal system.