Os refugiados palestinos e a nakba

Reflexões sobre Estados nacionais, colonialismo e a proteção internacional nos anos 1950

Abstract

The aim of the article is to highlight the historicity of international humanitarian arrangements in regional terms, in order to point out the legal “illusions” we harbor about international law, realizing their progressive decentralization of the “European question” related to World War II, and expanding the understanding for a broad period of decolonization wars on different continents. We propose a reading of international documents as part of the technologies that make up an “orchestra of nations” and a state, documents that expand and become supranational logics and influence the construction of an idea of “provisionality” attributed to the immigrant and compulsory exile that From an anthropological perspective, based on ethnographic analysis, on how Palestinians arrive in Brazil in the 1950s, the study seeks to highlight historical aspects that are usually overlooked in our listening when we relate to our interlocutors and reveal the juridical-administrative metamorphoses with which people, who “seek” the displacement, may or may not encounter the state apparatus. On the other hand, in order to retrieve good lessons from Professor Abdelmalek Sayad, the study points to the colonial connections that outline state action, often evidenced in welcoming processes, but which should not be overlooked as logics that preside over denial. visas, or the definition of destinations, for people who trace routes and the reconstruction of their lives through immigration. Reflections by Palestinian immigrants on the legal avenues available for their immigration, offered by different National States, should be done concomitant with the understanding of the historical construction of a humanitarian protection system for civilians, involving conventions, regional and international, of human rights protection to which countries are signatories. A glimpse into a historical perspective of such treaties allows us to reflect on the notions of state violence and international humanitarian protection waged through - and in dialogue - with such international agreements.