ABSTRACT
Being the municipality the minimum federative entity recognized by the Federal Constitution, when received, the person seeking refuge will in fact be welcomed into a city. Whereas the current Brazilian migration and refuge policy is based on the principle of promoting citizen participation by the migrant, its effective reception would correspond to guaranteeing the enjoyment and exercise of citizenship and the right to the city, involving the understanding of the very concepts of city, citizenship, citizenship rights and the right to the city. The present juridical-sociological investigation uses theoretical bibliographic research to present the current Brazilian policy of welcoming people in situations of refuge and the rights guaranteed to them, in order to demonstrate, based on the concepts that (re)builds: (i) the citizenship of the refugee population and their ownership of the right to the city; and (ii) the correspondence between the guarantee of the full exercise of citizenship and the right to the city with its effective reception, within the scope of the Brazilian legal system. It concludes with the qualification of such a group as citizens, with the right to full participation of the city, as inhabitants, with attention to the challenges of realizing this right.
Keywords:
Refuge; Welcome; Citizenship; Right to the city; Participation