On October 21, at 9:30 am, in room 6021, there will be the public defense of the thesis of researcher Nathália Antonucci Fonseca, entitled “(Ir)regularidades Afetivas no Governo do Refúgio: mulheres trans e lesbicas migrantes e refugiadas venezuelanas acompanhado pela LGBT+Movimento”. The thesis was supervised by Professor Laura Lowenkron (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and the board will be made up of Professors Sérgio Carrara (CLAM/IMS/UERJ), Adriana Vianna (MN/UFRJ), Isadora Lins França (Unicamp) and Angela Facundo (UFRN).
Summary of thesis:
By taking different dimensions of affect as analytical lenses for the government of refuge, the aim of this thesis is to investigate a set of affective regularities and irregularities in the (mis)encounters between Venezuelan trans and lesbian migrant and refugee women with the agents and institutions that make up this government. The methodological approach adopted was the construction of an ethnography, based on the author’s dual role as a researcher and manager in the LGBT+ Movement organization. In this sense, the research focuses on the experience of some trans and lesbian women accompanied by the organization between 2020 and 2022. The text is divided into three chapters. The first discusses the process of institutionalization of the LGBT+ Movement and analyses the micro-political dimensions of emotions, especially those related to humiliation and anger, based on the conflicts triggered by two trans women. I argue that the affective regularities felt by the interlocutors are connected to some administrative traditions historically present in programs aimed at migrants and refugees in Brazil. The second chapter takes as its starting point the measures that restricted the entry of migrants and refugees into Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the public debate that was organized around these measures, in order to identify a set of affective (ir)regularities in the “impossibility of staying” experienced by five Venezuelan lesbian women.
This chapter also explores the more relational dimension of affections, highlighting how they materialize in the relationalities built between a group of lesbian women dealing with a tragedy. The third chapter focuses on the material dimensions of affections based on the documents and bodies of Venezuelan trans women and transvestites. The process of documenting the inclusion of a social name reveals how the making and unmaking of national and sexual citizenship occurs in the midst of affective displacements that range from hope to disillusionment. Finally, it shows how affective regularities, especially those associated with hostile affections, are also responsible for constituting the materiality of the bodies of Venezuelan trans women. From this, the thesis seeks to highlight and defend the central role of affect for the analysis of the government of refuge, as well as providing new insights into the affective regularities and irregularities that permeate this field.
Keywords: Affects; Emotions; Refuge; Migration; LGBT population
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