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Brazilian response to the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis: Operation Acolhida as a politics of hope

Resposta brasileira à crise humanitária venezuelana: A Operação Acolhida como uma política de esperança

Abstract

This article discusses how Operation Acolhida, within the context of the Venezuela Situation, functions as a customized politics of hope where the Venezuelans refugees and migrants crossing the Brazilian border’s need for hope of is instrumentalized in a strategy to define how/what to hope for. The methodology is divided in the following subsections: the first section brings the discussion on the metaphysics of presence and its logocentric and teleologic perspectives; section two discusses how theories and understanding of hope have been evolving from the Ancient Greek thinkers till the present day and presents the politics of hope as a tool to understand the Operation Acolhida. The last two sections draw its conclusions by analysing how Operation Acolhida activates a customized strategy.

Keywords
hope; politics of hope; metaphysics of presence; Operation Acolhida; Venezuela Situation

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