Image and Human Rights: An Experience of the “Project Parallel Lives Migrants” Brazil-France

Abstract

This research takes place in Brazil and France and aims to reveal the daily life, work and culture from the perspective of migrants, through the production of images and sharing in "spaces of experience of the common sensibility" that seek to encourage reflection, participation and the construction of public policies. It is an action research structured from the Photography and Human Rights Workshops. Data are analyzed using the Hoefel Image Analysis methodology (2016) and Bardin's Content Analysis (1977). Between January 2017 and February 2018 eleven Photography and Human Rights Workshops were held in Brasília, in partnership with IMDH and five Workshops developed in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with UERJ and Cáritas. In France, five workshops were held in partnership with Université Paris Descartes and the Institut de la Précarité et de l’Inclusion of Nanterre, Centre d’Accueil et de Soins Hospitaliers of Nanterre, as well as the construction of research fields in Paris and the development of a Master II research linked to the Université Paris Descartes and the project. Experience has revealed pathways and stories of lives exposed to an expressive burden of human rights abuses and violations. In addition, the research allowed to know the migration policies adopted in both countries and their respective impacts on health and the guarantee of the rights of migrants.