Infância, refúgio e jogo democrático: anotações de campo

Abstract

Playful strategies among Venezuelan children in shelters for asylum seekers in Brazil are the focus of our investigation, which seeks to advance an understanding of play and play in border spaces as unexpected and vigorous places of political (re)imagination and experimentation with practice democratic. The article develops the hypothesis that games have the potential to alter the “landscape of the sensitive”, in Jacques Rancière's terms, by disturbing the security-humanitarian grammar that regulates interactions between subjects, objects, spaces and temporalities experienced. in shelters. When playing, children reconfigure meanings and meanings for imposed routines, creating escape routes from the regulated, predictable and boring daily life of the countryside. The investigation is led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers associated with [removed for blind review], dedicated to studies on refuge and human rights. Our methodology is ethnographically inspired and involves participatory and qualitative research with Venezuelan children in shelters in Brazil, based on material collected in field studies: interviews, photographs, videos and diary notes.