O processo de inclusão de refugiados e imigrantes nos cursos de graduação das universidades federais da região sul do Brasil: conexões entre migrações e desenvolvimento

Abstract

This study aims to identify how the inclusion process of refugees and immigrants in undergraduate courses at Federal Universities in the Southern Region of Brazil occurs. The concern of this research is the fact of knowing whether immigrants and refugees arriving in Brazil continue their studies, whether they are included in federal universities through specific selection processes and how universities deal with this inclusion. To this end, through a multi-case study, with the Federal Universities of the Southern Region of Brazil as their unit of analysis, which have inclusion policies for immigrants and refugees and an agreement with the Sérgio Vieira de Mello Cathedra - CSVM, this descriptive and With a qualitative nature, it identified that the processes are different in relation to the presentation of the required documentation and in the selection criteria of each institution studied. With this research it was possible to identify that, when there is an obligation to present the high school equivalency document, as well as the translated documents and proof of proficiency in Portuguese, the process becomes a little more bureaucratic and may come to hamper the student access to federal educational institutions. However, there is an effort by public universities to compensate for these factors through free Portuguese courses, in order to provide support to those students who must present the proficiency certificate and even to participate in the selection criteria. It was seen that the inclusion of these students does not take place completely, as there are timid actions of reception and integration offered by universities, in which only one of the cases studied stood out for its actions of reception and integration.