A produção da criança refugiada a partir das fotografias nos documentos do Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para refugiados (ACNUR).

Abstract

This thesis problematizes the production of the refugee child on the photographs present in the booklets and documents of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Photografy is understood by Kossoy (2007) and Sontag (2004) as a record and freezing of a space and time, producing a record of a specific moment. Supranational agencies, on the other hand, are understood here from Hardt and Negri (2001), like part this of a new world order with traces of Empire, as there are no limits to their territories of operation, even though such agencies are placed as oriented from the respect to the sovereignty of nation states. By childhood I mean this westernized time space in which there is a care for the active subject in this idea, the child. It is based on these concepts that this thesis operates looking at the photographs of children in UNHCR documents based on what Butler (2015) calls a frame. It is from the framing of the photographs that it was possible to perceive a process of whitening children as the photographs were portraying children in the destination countries. Of the 70 photographs analyzed, 15 were used for the analisys because they showed the children in the front. The analysis was made from the idea of childhood and how the concept of commotion can be used to make these children as lives capable of mourning; and an analysis of UNHCR's roles as a supreme national agency that aims to protect the refugee. Finally, it is possible to perceive a process of commotion combined with the condition of children and the way children are placed in educational environments, it aims to awaken the desire for protection that is established when we apprehend the precariousness of these lives. These photographs, more than informing the successes of a necessary work, invite us to reflect on the norms of the human to which we conform and on the limits of our own notion of humanity.