The discourses on forced displacement and its effects on the (re)constitution of the social identity of Venezuelan immigrants
Identity; Forced Migration; Critical Discourse Analysis.
Based on the theoretical-methodological approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this research investigates the discourses formed, from the Venezuelan diaspora, the effects on the (re)constitution of the social identity of these immigrants, in the way they discover this social event, considered as a result of the political, economic and social process established by the Venezuelan government, as of 2013. In terms of study perspective, it is located in the qualitative interpretative tradition (MAGALHÃES et al, 2017). Likewise, starting from the analysis and reflection of two texts related to the participating subjects, in the way they experienced the migration process, it was possible to understand, through the study of the discursive process (responses from two participants), the effects of forced displacement, in the way I perceive and experience this event and the unfolding of it. This question was analyzed from the external and internal relations. The social process, in external relations, involves these macrosociative questions (BARROS, 2015) as exclusive globalization, which produces diasporas throughout the world. Internal relations consider the fragmentation of identity as a process resulting from asymmetries of power, differences and disjunctures (HALL, 2009). For this, we identify the articulated discourses and highlight how they are articulated forms, not what refers to the way of representing the world, based on Fairclough (2016). The stages of the analysis will follow the framework of Chouliaraki and Fairclough (1999). Likewise, we highlight the texts' semiotic aspects to capture the meanings of discourse as an element of social practice. A theoretical-methodological base is formed by ADC and transits in an interdisciplinary way by linguistic, historical, sociological and cultural studies in order to carry out critical studies of language as social practice in a specific contemporary context as the process of human displacement. The technique used as a dominant strategy, for the constitution of the corpus, was interviewed, whose responses will result in the texts for analysis. The research participants are Venezuelan immigrants who are students of the Portuguese course as an additional language of the Program “Transits, borders, migration and additional languages in the Amazon” of the Federal University of Rondônia. Therefore, in contexts of vulnerable democracies, this study seeks to explain processes of construction of social, political and cultural identities in scenarios of poverty, lack of educational policies, corruption and injustice. The results seek to reveal orders of discourse permeated by ideologies that make migrants feel responsible for the situation in which they find themselves, naturalizing discourses and preconceptions, triggering hostility to the Venezuelan immigrant and, finally, looking for ways to break the silence of the people , giving them a voice through the dissemination of knowledge referring to the reality lived by them.