From Control to Protagonism? Preliminary Analysis of the Paradigmatic Inflection in Social Participation in the Brazilian National Policy on Migration, Refugee and Statelessness (PNMRA)
Análise preliminar da inflexão paradigmática na participação social na Política Nacional de Migrações, Refúgio e Apatridia (PNMRA) brasileira
Keywords:
Governança migratória. Participação social. PNMRA. Protagonismo migrante. Economia moral.Abstract
This article offers a preliminary analysis of the paradigmatic transition in Brazilian migratory governance, focusing on the institutionalization of social participation within the National Policy on Migration, Refugees, and Statelessness (PNMRA), established by Decree No. 12,657/2025. The central objective is to investigate to what extent this new normative framework enables the migrant as an active political subject, aiming to overcome the logic of the "Moral Economy of Asylum" (Didier Fassin). Methodologically, the study employs Laurence Bardin's Content Analysis to perform an exploratory examination of the Working Group reports and the Decree's text, contrasting them with the previous regulatory model (Decree No. 9,199/2017). Initial results indicate that the PNMRA establishes a deliberative and decentralized participation ecosystem that seeks to replace the "hierarchy of compassion" with the horizontality of rights. It concludes that the policy represents an advance in the de-stigmatization of migration by consolidating mechanisms that ensure migrant protagonism in the public policy management cycle.
