O trabalho como garantia do princípio da não devolução de refugiados no Brasil

Abstract

Work, as a primary source of income, has a key role in ensuring the refugee's autonomy in foreign soil. On the grounds that Brazil, as well as the rest of the world, has received a everincreasing demand for refuge, this survey aims to unravel the main administrative, cultural and social difficulties for the refugees to access work in the country, and how unemployment can compromise their stay on national territory. Through bibliographic, legislative, case-law and empirical studies, problem situations that contradict the principle of non-refoulement’s core (international refugee law's elementary basis) were identified. As a consequence, it is denoted the need for a legislative and administrative reajustment in order to make a more comprehensive provision of formal labour conditions available. Furthermore, it is underlined the call for a better information and awareness of Brazilian people – so as to make them operate as refugee integration agents into society and into labour market.