O presente trabalho visa estabelecer um exercício de perspectiva entre arte e loucura. Atentando para aquilo que é outro, heterogêneo, estrangeiro, constrói- se o terreno para perguntar o que pode a loucura dizer e revelar sobre a arte e a história da arte, e o que pode a arte dizer sobre a loucura. Paralelamente, pergunta-se pelo potencial da antropologia em relação a ambas: como a etnografia e a atitude antropológica podem se construir como paradigma para a teoria e a crítica de arte? A partir da imersão etnográfica em um contexto de reclusão onde arte e loucura se encontram - a oficina de criatividade de um hospital psiquiátrico -, pergunta-se o que podem a antropologia e a etnografia diante da loucura, suas obras e processos. Discute-se, então, uma “virada etnográfica” na arte contemporânea e uma “virada antropológica” ou “etnográfica”, ainda por realizar, na crítica de arte, situando-a enquanto experiência vivida, imersão e criação. Como transformar essas experiências em paradigma para pensar não só as artes dos outros, mas outras artes, outras possibilidades e modos de ser da arte? A partir de visões de diferentes formas pelas quais a busca e o contato com a alteridade se fizeram nas artes visuais, chega-se a indagar pela arte dos loucos. Nesse percurso são mobilizados diferentes referenciais como o Surrealismo, Jean Dubuffet, Arnulf Rainer, Bispo do Rosário, Michel Foucault, entre outros. Nesse exercício, não se perdeu de vista a dimensão política da exclusão dos atores sociais tidos como loucos. A escrita foi vista enquanto tarefa ética frente à memória do sofrimento dos excluídos. A todo o instante, é retomado o questionamento sobre como seguir a linha que liga arte e loucura, sem confirmar compromissos policiais e asilares com as instituições intoleráveis e repressivas de nossa cultura. / This thesis intends to undertake an exercise of perspective between the fields of art and madness. Focusing on what is heterogeneous, stranger, other respect to ourselves and our culture, it puts forward the question about what can madness reveal about art and the history of art, and what can art tell us about madness. This thesis also asks about the potential of anthropology on relating to both art and madness: how can ethnography and an anthropological attitude constitute themselves as a paradigm to art criticism and to the theory of art? Departing from the ethnographic immersion into a universe of reclusion where art and madness meet – the creativity workshop of a psychiatric hospital -, this dissertation investigates the potentialities of anthropology and ethnography in face of madness, its works and processes. An “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art is, then, discussed, as well as an “ethnographic turn”, yet to accomplish, in art criticism, figuring it as intensive experience, immersion and process of creation. How to transform these experiences into a paradigm not just to think the arts of the others (“outsider arts”), but also to think other kinds of art, different possibilities and alternative concepts of art? Departing from several different ways by which the quest and the contact with alterity and otherness were made in the visual arts, the thesis approaches the art of the insane. Along this path, different artistic and philosophical references are mobilized such as Surrealism, Jean Dubuffet, Arnulf Rainer, Bispo do Rosário, Michel Foucault, among others. In this exercise, the political aspects regarding the process of exclusion of social actors categorized as mad are never out of sight. The act of writing was assumed as an ethical task before the necessity of remembering the suffering inflicted to the mad by society. The text constantly reiterates the questioning about how to follow the path that connects art and madness without confirming compromises with intolerable and repressive institutions of our culture.

abstract: During the 1980s hundreds of thousands of Central American refugees streamed into the United States and Canada in the Central American Refugee Crisis (CARC). Fleeing homelands torn apart by civil war, millions of Guatemalans, Nicaraguans and Salvadorans fled northward seeking a safer and more secure life. This dissertation takes a "bottom-up" approach to policy history by focusing on the ways that "ground-level" actors transformed and were transformed by the CARC in Canada and the United States. At the Mexico-US and US-Canada borders Central American refugees encountered border patrol agents, immigration officials, and religious activists, all of whom had a powerful effect on the CARC and were deeply affected by their participation at the crisis. Using government archives, news media articles, legal filings and oral history this study examines a series of events during the CARC. Highlighting the role of "ground level" actors, this dissertation uses three specific case studies to look at how individuals, small groups, and a border town transformed and were transformed by the Central American Refugee Crisis. It argues that (#1) the CARC deeply affected the lives of those who participated in it, and (#2) the actors' interpretation and negotiation of, as well as resistance to, refugee policy changed the shape and outcomes of the Central American Refugee Crisis. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. History 2014

After Sweden, among other European countries, received a record number of asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016, the public discussion on integration of newcomers to the Swedish society intensified. One of the important means of such integration, as well as one of the fundamental human rights, is access to relevant information – knowledge refugees need to settle at a new place. This study looks into the information practices of one of the largest group of newcomers to Europe – the Afghans – based on the case of Kronoberg County in the Southern Sweden.   Grounded on Reijo Savolainen’s (2008) theory of everyday information practices, this study applies the combination of McKenzie’s (2003), Mwarigha’s (2002), and Berlo’s (1960) analytical models to explore the informational behavior of asylum seekers and check if it is accommodated in the communication strategies of different agencies involved in the integration process. To reach these objectives, a set of interviews was conducted with both Afghan newcomers and representatives of different governmental and non-governmental organizations.   The results of the conducted research and analysis may be summed up to one major topic. While Swedish reception and integration system is effective in reaching out to the newcomers and providing them with task-related information, the structure of the system impedes the provision of general orienting information and guidance, which is in great demand among the asylum seekers. Therefore, development of a parallel system of information can be noticed, with personal relations and authority of the local opinion leaders in the core of it. It is concluded that such division should not be seen as a threat to the integration of newcomers, rather as a supportive mechanism on its intermediate stage. Still, it is important to promote policies that foster active personal contacts between Swedes and newcomers – for example, mentorship programmes.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / O ponto de partida desta investigaÃÃo à a experiÃncia manicomial do escritor Lima Barreto, internado como paciente psiquiÃtrico, em 1914 e 1919, no HospÃcio Nacional de Alienados do Rio de Janeiro. A partir da anÃlise do escritor acerca do âespetÃculo do hospÃcioâ, descrito como âlugar que condena os sujeitos à morte em vidaâ, presente nas obras DiÃrio do HospÃcio e O CemitÃrio dos Vivos, dedicamo-nos à observÃncia e à anÃlise do surgimento da ciÃncia psiquiÃtrica e de seus pressupostos, advindos, sobretudo, da Europa, e executados no Brasil, pensando a loucura como uma problemÃtica indissociavelmente mÃdica e social. Analisaremos, portanto, a partir da âescrita de siâ de Lima Barreto, dos documentos produzidos pela instituiÃÃo responsÃvel pela sua internaÃÃo (prontuÃrios mÃdicos) e dos trabalhos voltados a pensar a psiquiatria e a loucura como doenÃa mental, a experiÃncia manicomial a partir do prÃprio louco, a histÃria das teorias psiquiÃtricas definidoras e legitimadoras daquilo que era normal e patolÃgico, a classificaÃÃo e a criaÃÃo do espaÃo institucional medicalizado, o cotidiano no espaÃo asilar e a especializaÃÃo mÃdica voltada a curar a loucura. A partir desses materiais, pensamos sobre a imposiÃÃo de uma relaÃÃo de poder entre o mÃdico e o doente, as prÃticas em torno dos âinsanosâ, o confisco da âloucuraâ pelo olhar especialista do mÃdico e os sujeitos que compunham o arsenal teÃrico da psiquiatria, expostos Ãs suas terapias e prÃticas, que, na maioria das vezes, eram pobres, negros e trabalhadores braÃais, perspectiva que compreende uma questÃo iminentemente social, muito embora elaborada como doenÃa. / The starting point of this investigation is the asylum experience of writer Lima Barreto, admitted as a psychiatric patient in 1914 and 1919, to the HospÃcio Nacional de Alienados do Rio de Janeiro. From the writerâs analysis of the âasylum spectacleâ, described as âa place that sentences to social deathâ, that appears on DiÃrio do HospÃcio and O CemitÃrio dos Vivos, this paper reviews the beginning of psychic science and its assumptions originated mostly from Europe and performed in Brazil, presuming madness as an inseparable medical and social problematic. An analysis will be made based on the âself-writingâ of Lima Barreto, from the documents produced by the institution responsible for this admission (medical charts) and the works toward thinking psychiatry and madness as a mental disease. The asylum experience from the insane himself, the history of psychiatry theories that defined and legitimated what were normal and pathological, the classification and creation of the medical institutional space, the routine of the asylum and the medical specialization towards healing insanity. From those resources, was considered the imposition of a power relation between the doctor and the sick individual, the practices around the âinsaneâ, the confiscation of âmadnessâ through the physicianâs specialist point of view, and the subjects that were part of the psychiatry theory research, exposed to their therapy and practices, that, in most part, were poor, black and handymen, from a perspective that comprehends an eminently social topic, although elaborated as a disease.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2016-04-04T12:42:29Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) VERSÃO DIGITAL_DISSERTAÇÃO DE DAIANNE RAFAEL VIEIRA_PPGA.pdf: 1937158 bytes, checksum: b484d5a9e66f5cdaa940d13be0e01655 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T12:42:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) VERSÃO DIGITAL_DISSERTAÇÃO DE DAIANNE RAFAEL VIEIRA_PPGA.pdf: 1937158 bytes, checksum: b484d5a9e66f5cdaa940d13be0e01655 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-30 / CAPEs / Esta pesquisa aborda a inserção crescente do Brasil no acolhimento aos refugiados e solicitantes de refúgio dentro de um contexto internacional, bem como as razões que levam à migração congolesa pelo mundo. Discute também a vivência do refugiado e solicitante de refúgio congolês na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, no que implica revelar como estes indivíduos estão sendo recebidos, a formação de redes entre eles e a importância da busca por trabalho. Por meio da oferta de programas de assistência ligados ao Alto Comissariado nas Nações Unidas para Refugiados (ACNUR) e à Cáritas Arquidiocesana do Rio de Janeiro, este grupo de refugiados e solicitantes de refúgio tem revelado mecanismos de sobrevivência para se adaptar à sociedade brasileira, às falhas de acolhimento e às ofertas de trabalho, na tentativa de possibilitar um novo espaço de aceitação e morada. Assim, revela-se aqui como a concessão do refúgio aos congoleses localizados no Rio de Janeiro tem permitido a construção de novas perspectivas de vida, diferentes da vivência da fome, violência e miséria constantes na República Democrática do Congo. / This research addresses the growing insertion of Brazil within an international context as it welcomes refugees and asylum seekers as well as the reasons leading to Congolese migration around the world. It seeks to survey the day-to-day experience of Congolese refugees and asylum seekers in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Its goal is to reveal how these individuals are being accepted as well as the intricate formation of networks amongst them highlighting their job-seeking journey. It explores the topic of how, with the assistance of High Commissioner related assistance programs in the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Archdiocesan Caritas of Rio de Janeiro, this group has developed coping mechanisms to adapt to Brazilian society. This paper also discusses the flaws encountered as Brazilian Society grants asylum to Congolese refugees, such as to provide these individuals with job opportunities as a vehicle for acceptance and residence. Thus, it is revealed here how the granting of refuge to the Congolese in Rio de Janeiro has allowed for the possibility of new perspectives of life compared to their previous experience of hunger, violence and constant misery in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Esta tese teve como temática a subjetividade de participantes de movimentos sociais. O objetivo da pesquisa configurou-se em um longo trajeto, traduzindo-se como identificar e refletir aspectos que compõem processos associativos e desagregadores nas relações estabelecidas entre participantes dos movimentos sociais de saúde mental no Brasil, em especial aqueles que se articulam em torno dos princípios da Luta Antimanicomial. Nesse sentido, configura-se como um estudo exploratório. Inicialmente foi aprofundada a discussão sobre o que se considera direita e esquerda no Brasil, questão relacionada a um campo de disputas político-ideológicas e, com isso, foi definido o tipo de movimento social que seria necessário pesquisar para melhor compreensão dos processos de subjetivação e de associação e desagregação. O método usado é denatureza dialética. A partir da identificação de uma variedade de significados usados para descrever um mesmo termo, foi necessário aprofundar conceitos como participação e cidadania, entre outros. Para fundamentar a questão da subjetividade foi utilizadaa teoria psicológica de Enrique Pichon-Rivière. Rivière. Como resultado da pesquisa foi necessário abordar a questão da ideologia e como esta interfere nos processos de subjetivação. Nesse caso, foram usados os referenciais de Marx e Pichon-Rivière. No campo da psicologia social, Pichon-Rivière, dentre outros autores, propõe uma atitude analítica e científica que faça frente à consciência ingênua e à valorização do cotidiano como autoevidente e inquestionável, pois está relacionado a um sistema social de representações ou ideologias que encobre e distorce o cotidiano, que o mistifica enquanto oculta sua essência segundo interesses dos setores hegemônicos da sociedade. O encobrimento ocorre por um mecanismo característico de naturalização do social pela ideologia dominante e, nesse sentido, se faz necessário o estudo das leis que regem a configuração do sujeito. sentido, se faz necessário o estudo das leis que regem a configuração do sujeito. Os sujeitos desta pesquisa são participantes de movimentos de saúde mental, profissionais, usuários e familiares de usuários. De acordo com essas entrevistas observou-se que o incômodo com situações vivenciadas pelos próprios entrevistados os levou a buscar alternativas para a realidade em que estavam, encontrando no Movimento da Luta Antimanicomial um espaço que permitiu reconfigurar suas experiências. As reflexões trazidas aqui têm como intuito oferecer indicativos a serem considerados na compreensão de processos de subjetivação e participação em movimentos sociais de saúde mental. O referencial teórico de Pichon-Rivière permitiu sugerir o estabelecimento de um paralelo entre as noções de tarefa e pré-tarefa com a dinâmica associação/desagregação no movimento, abordada pelos sujeitos nas entrevistas. A trajetória do movimento não se configurou como uma linearidade ascendente ou descendente, mas pode ser compreendida no movimento em espiral tal como proposto por Pichon-Rivière. Os sujeitos em questão inventaram-se e reinventaram-se num determinado contexto e estrutura social e, sendo assim, não é possível afirmar que os resultados encontrados nesta pesquisa sejamos mesmos a serem encontrados para todos os movimentos sociais e seus participantes. No entanto, a associação/desagregação, desde que considerada em sua dimensão dialética, pode se configurar como uma chave para compreensão sobre os modos de subjetivação dos sujeitos em suas práticas participativas em outros movimentos sociais / The theme of this thesis sheds light on the subjectivity of participants of social movements. The objective of this research took shape in the course of a long trajectory and was established as an attempt to identify and reflect about the aspects that compose associative and disaggregating processes that occur in the relationships established between participants of social movements focused on mental health in Brazil, particularly movements based on the principles of Anti-Psychiatry(Luta Antimanicomial). In this sense, this thesis is configured as an exploratory study. At first, a deeper discussion was promoted on what could be considered right-wing and left-wing in Brazil, as this issue is related to a field of political-ideological disputes. This discussion was used to define the type of social movement to be studied in order to reach a better understanding of the processes of subjectification, association, and disaggregation, using a dialectic method. disaggregation, using a dialectic method. Based on the identification of several meanings given to the same term, deeper discussions were necessary to better define concepts such as participation and politicalcitizenship. The psychological theory of Enrique Pichon-Rivière was used to support the issue of subjectivity. The result of the research led to a need to discuss the matter of ideology and how it interferes with subjectification processes. In this case, references from Marx and Pichon-Rivière were used here. In the field of social psychology, Pichon-Rivière, among other authors, proposes an analytical and scientific attitude in face of the ingenuous consciousness and the valuation of the daily life as self-evident and unquestionable, as it is related to a social system of representations or ideologies that conceals and distorts the daily life, and mystifies it while it also hides its essence according to the interests of hegemonic segments of society. Suchconcealment makes use of a characteristic mechanism of naturalization of the social sphere by the dominant ideology, and in this sense, a study of the rules that govern the configuration of the subject is necessary. The subjects of this research are participants of mental health movements, professionals, users, and family members of these users. Our interviews indicated that the discomfort with the situations experienced by the interviewees led them to seek alternatives to their current reality, finding a safe place in the Anti-Psychiatry Movement (Movimento da Luta Antimanicomial) where they were able to reconfigure their experiences. The reflections raised here are intended to provide indications to be considered in the understanding of processes of subjectification and participation in social movements dedicated to mental health. participation in social movements dedicated to mental health. The theoretical reference of Pichon-Rivière allowed us to suggest a comparison between the notions of task and pre-task with the dynamics of association/disaggregation in the movement, as mentioned by the interviewees. The trajectory of the movement did not present an ascending or descending linearity, but may be understood as a spiral movement, as suggested by Pichon-Rivière. The research subjects invented and reinvented themselves in a given context and social structure. Therefore, it is no longer possible to affirm that the results found in this research would be the same as those that might be found with all other social movements and their participants. However, the association/disaggregation considered in its dialectic dimension can represent a key element to understand the subjectification modes of subjects in their participation in other social movements

Esta pesquisa procura analisar o isolamento compulsório dos portadores de hanseníase no Asilo-colônia Santo Ângelo localizado em Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, tendo como ponto de partida os anos 1890, época em que as primeiras medidas de controle da hanseníase e de outras doenças foram adotadas pelo poder público paulista. A criação de várias instituições e do primeiro código sanitário marcaram o início da construção de uma forte estrutura para o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas de saúde neste local. Os anos 1960 marcam o fim do período de isolamento dos hansenianos e a possibilidade dos portadores manterem uma vida fora das grades do Santo Ângelo e dos demais asilos do estado. O controle das doenças na capital paulista tornou-se uma grande preocupação do poder público na medida em que a industrialização possibilitava o enriquecimento e a modernização da cidade, atraindo um grande número de imigrantes. O aumento populacional trazia consigo o alastramento de diversas doenças endêmicas e epidêmicas, tornando urgente a intervenção do Estado no combate aos agravos à saúde da população, posto que as medidas particulares adotadas em períodos anteriores não estavam surtindo efeitos. Os conhecimentos produzidos acerca das doenças no Brasil e no mundo permitiam à medicina enfatizar o papel que o ser humano desempenhava na transmissão das doenças, favorecendo com isso o controle sobre os doentes. Desta forma, além da preocupação com o ambiente físico, posto que medidas sanitárias eram adotadas com o intuito de melhorar as condições de vida na cidade, a medicina lançava seu olhar também ao corpo social, vigiando, controlando e excluindo os doentes da população sã. Ao se dirigir ao ser humano, como fonte propagadora de doenças, a medicina sanitarista, que se desenvolvia em São Paulo, adotou técnicas de exclusão, de controle e de vigilância como formas de profilaxia das moléstias. Neste sentido, dentre as várias doenças de notificação compulsória, a hanseníase (antiga lepra) foi privilegiada neste trabalho por tratar-se de uma doença cuja prevenção exigiu o isolamento compulsório de seus portadores em asilos-colônias construídos em locais distantes da capital. A hanseníase se alastrou de maneira impressionante a partir do final do século XIX em São Paulo, causando grande medo entre a população posto que a cura não era conhecida e também porque trazia consigo representações herdadas de um passado distante, mas que ainda impressionavam as pessoas. O isolamento dos portadores de hanseníase no Asilo-colônia Santo Ângelo era visto pelas autoridades, pelos médicos e pela sociedade como única forma de profilaxia da doença. Neste sentido, o Santo Ângelo foi construído tendo em vista uma longa permanência dos doentes, sendo provido de diversas instalações e de uma infra-estrutura elogiada até mesmo fora do estado e do Brasil. Contudo, com o passar dos anos o asilo se tornou um lugar insuportável para se viver. Os doentes, afastados de suas famílias, eram constantemente vigiados, sofriam maus tratos, eram transformados em cobaias para experimentos de novos medicamentos e, fora dos muros do asilo, a doença se mantinha incontrolada. Após décadas de sofrimentos, finalmente em 1967 as portas do Asilo-colônia Santo Ângelo foram abertas para que os doentes pudessem sair. No entanto, muitas pessoas continuaram e continuam até hoje morando no lugar por não possuírem perspectivas de vida fora do asilo. Algumas delas tiveram seus corpos afetados pela doença e se tornaram incapacitados de alguma forma, seja perda da visão, da audição ou de mãos e pés, porém, todas devem levar consigo as marcas do abandono e da exclusão sofridos no período de isolamento compulsório. / This research tries analyse the compulsory isolation of hanseníase carriers at the asylum-colony located in Mogi das Cruzes, SP, starting in the 80s, when the first hanseníase and other illnesses control arrangements were adapted by the paulista government. The creation of many institutions and the first sanitary code sealed the beginning of the construction of a structure to the development of public policies of health in that place. The 60s indicate the end of hansenianos period of isolation and the possibility of carries to keep a life out of bars of Santo Ângelo and other asylums in the state. The illnesses control, in the paulista capital, became a great worry of the government as the industrialization mode the enrichment and modernization of the city possible, attracting a big number of immigrants. The increasing population brought with itself the expansion of many endemic and epidemic illnesses, making urgent state government intervention in the combat to the damages to health, though the particular arrangements adapted in previous periods were not working. The know ledges made about illnesses in Brazil and in the world allowed the medicine to emphasize the role the human blings played in the illnesses transmission, helping with this the control on sick people. This ways, besides the worry with the physical environment, though the sanitary arrangements were adapted with aim of improving the life conditions in the city, the medicine threw its look also to the social body, observing, controlling and excluding the sick people from the health population. By addressing to the human being, as a spreading temple of illnesses, the sanitary medicine, which grew in São Paulo, adapted exclusion, control and precaution techniques as ways of diseases preventive medicine. In this sense, among the many illnesses of compulsory notice, the hanseníase (former lepra) was privileged in this work by concerning a disease of which prevention demanded the compulsory isolation of its carriers in asylumcolonies built in places far from the capital. The hanseníase spread in an impressing way from the end of the 19th century in São Paulo, causing a great fear among the population since its cure was unknown and also because it brought with itself representations inherited from a distant past, but that still used to impress people. The isolation of hanseníase carriers at the Asylum-colony Santo Ângelo was seen by the authorities, by the doctors and by the society as the only way of preventing the disease. In this sense, Santo Ângelo was built having in view a long stay of the sick people, being provided with several facilities and an infrastructure praised even out of the state and Brazil. However, with the passing years the asylum became an unbearable place to live in. The sick people, apart from this families, were constantly watched, suffered maltreatments, were transformed into guinea pigs for testing new drugs and, out of the walls of the asylum, the illness kept out of uncontrolled. After decades of suffering, finally in 1967 the doors of the Asylum-Colony Santo Ângelo were open for the sick people to go out. Nevertheless, many people kept and keep up to today living in the place because they do not have perspectives of live out of the asylum. Some of them had their bodies affected by the illness and became in some way unable, eye sight, hearing or hands and feet loss, however all of then must take with them the forlornness blemish and the exclusion suffered in the period of compulsory isolation.

The challenge of immigration has divided EU member states, political parties, media and academia as well as the electorate of EU countries, leaving political decision makers under tremendous pressure on both national and EU level. To alleviate the situation for highly burdened member states, the Commission has suggested a permanent relocation mechanism for refugees, but so far, many member states have been reluctant to accept higher shares of refugees. Some observers have labelled the situation a crisis of solidarity, challenging the idea of European integration, but also questioning the Union’s capacity to demonstrate solidarity between member states, and consequently its capacity to show solidarity with arriving refugees.   By looking at European Parliament debates, this paper examines the main differences between the European Christian Democratic and Social Democratic understandings of solidarity and how these differences become visible in relation to relocation of refugees and asylum seekers between EU member states. The findings suggest that while there is some convergence, Christian Democrats are more inclined to consider refugees as a threat and to advocate the need of securing external borders than their Social Democratic counterparts. Social Democrats also to a larger extent favour the idea of making relocation mandatory, while many Christian Democrats emphasize the importance of subsidiarity.   The findings can be associated with the foundational values of both party groups and their political understandings of solidarity. Most interestingly, however, this paper finds that the national level variance within these two party groups is frequently bigger, than between them – indicating that MEP’s understandings of solidarity are perhaps more strongly mediated by nationality than political affiliation.

The topic of migration has become one that is gaining notice in society. With the number of migrants, asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors and child refugees rising rapidly in the past few years it has become a theme of great importance with global reach. These migratory fluxes blur the boundaries between voluntary and forced migration which were previously regarded as separate notions. The media plays a powerful role when it comes to define such concepts as well as creating representations of these populations and shaping the public perception of these individuals. Through this thesis, the representations of unaccompanied asylum seeking minors and refugees constructed by the Portuguese media will be analysed using discourse analysis. The aim is to create knowledge about the representations of unaccompanied asylum seeking minors and refugees in the Portuguese media as this means of communication is an important voice in the public and political debate concerning these populations. The results show that there are several dichotomies regarding the representations of unaccompanied asylum seeking minors and refugees in the Portuguese media. Young migrants are represented both as security seekers and causes of insecurity, victims and survivors, passive agents which lack agency and active agents who use their agency to leave their home countries, as well as people worth supporting and people who had enough support. Discourse analysis provides information regarding the discourses used in the Portuguese media to represent unaccompanied asylum seeking minors and refugees as well as the context in which the articles were written. Finally, there are several representations of unaccompanied asylum seeking minors and refugees in the Portuguese media, yet the ones whose discourse is stronger, in the five chosen articles, are the of young migrants as security seekers, victims that are worth being supported and that are mostly active agents in their journeys.

The nursing homes are places for residency conference elderly. These sites are for people with advanced ages who want or need support and protection. The study aimed to meet the space asylum, aging and everyday life experienced by elderly Shelter Spiritualist Oscar José Pithan in Santa Maria-RS. The research used the qualitative method, taking as reference the phenomenology. Population aging is occurring at the global, national, regional and local level, but the number of institutionalized elderly is still proportionately small. Through the study, we found that there is heterogeneity in the understanding and experience aging in a nursing home. Some seniors wanted to be inside the asylum, as demonstrated joy and contentment, others had aversion asylum space. Research has shown that people who live in a nursing home watching time and space in a way somewhat different society, realizing the time as something slower, slower than society is accustomed to experiencing. The daily life of the elderly is somewhat rhythmic, regulated by schedules that define the time to get up, eat, bathe, receive visits or to be medicated, but some seniors attempt to modify this routine, this routine with the different activities that are used . When interviewed the elderly, it was noticed that, when dealing with the subject age, most are considered to be living a good phase of life, despite the abandonment of some familiar and some of these seniors are presenting poor health. With regard to age of the elderly for the institution there is a reason homogeneous, ie, were presented several motivations for joining them at the shelter. / As instituições asilares são locais para a residência coletiva de idosos. Esses locais são destinados às pessoas com idades avançadas que desejam ou necessitam de amparo e proteção. O estudo teve o objetivo de conhecer o espaço asilo, o envelhecimento e o cotidiano vivido pelos idosos do Abrigo Espírita Oscar José Pithan em Santa Maria-RS. A pesquisa utilizou o método qualitativo, tendo como referencial a fenomenologia. O envelhecimento da população está ocorrendo em âmbito global, nacional, regional e local, porém o número de idosos institucionalizados ainda é proporcionalmente pequeno. Através do estudo, foi possível verificar que há uma heterogeneidade no entendimento e no sentir o envelhecimento dentro de uma instituição asilar. Alguns idosos desejavam estar dentro do asilo, pois demonstravam alegria e contentamento, outros apresentavam aversão ao espaço asilar. A pesquisa demonstrou que as pessoas que moram em uma instituição asilar observam o tempo e o espaço de uma forma um pouco diferente da sociedade, percebendo o tempo como algo mais devagar, mais lento do que a sociedade está acostumada a vivenciar. O cotidiano dos idosos é um tanto quanto ritmado, normatizado por horários que definem a hora de se levantar, comer, tomar banho, receber visitas ou de ser medicado, porém alguns idosos tentam modificar esta rotina, esse cotidiano com atividades diferentes as que estão acostumados. Quando se entrevistou os idosos, percebeu-se que, ao se tratar do assunto velhice, a maioria se considerava estar vivendo uma fase boa da vida, apesar do abandono de alguns familiares e de alguns desses idosos estarem apresentando a saúde fragilizada. No que se refere à ida dos idosos para a instituição não há uma razão homogênea, isto é, foram apresentadas várias motivações para o ingresso deles no abrigo.