Movimentação internacional de pessoas: perspectivas social e jurídica dos trabalhadores sul-americanos irregulares no Brasil

Abstract

Research whose subject is the illegal immigrants workers in Brazil coming from South American countries. The migratory movements occurred by the development of the humanity and in Brazil there were periods that the flow of immigrants was intense and in other not so much. The migrations to the country coming from the borderer countries get importance in the 1950‟s. This movement has been intensified since 1970 and ever since the numbers have been increasing. The main destiny of the immigrants has been the sewing factories established in São Paulo. However, these immigrants have been entering, staying illegally, establishing themselves as unidentified or clandestine and working in conditions similar to slave work. This study had as aim analyzing the condition of vulnerability created by the illegality of the immigrant workers under the social and legal perspective. The immigrations occurred between the years 2000 and 2010. It was found that many immigrants had worked and lived in degraded conditions in the sewing factories setting offenses to the fundamental rights of the human. The Brazilian State has launched actions aiming opposing this disorder. The research was carried out from the issue verification, followed by the formulation of hypothesis about the reality of irregular immigrants and their vulnerability in order to conclude the existence of the situation and transgressions to the elementary rights of the human being. The research is set up in bibliographical research that includes historical, sociological, legal, demographical studies as well as investigations in publications of International Organisms as United Nations (UN), International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Labor Organization (ILO), and national government agencies such as Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego e Ministério da Justiça. The study also includes documental research in the Constituição Federal of 1988, laws, International Treaties and demographical data of Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) e do Centro Latino Americano de Demografia (CELADE).