NORMATIVE RESOLUTION 002/2019 CEE/MT AS A PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL POLICY FOR MIGRANT/REFUGEE STUDENTS IN THE STATE OF MATO GROSSO
Educational policy; discourse analysis; migration
Access to education is fundamental for migrants and refugees because it affects their integration into their new society. Since many of them have had their experiences and expectations interrupted in their countries of origin, acceptance by public education policies becomes essential for them to regain their humanity. The state of Mato Grosso has been a destination for migrant individuals and families in recent years, which has generated demands on how school services are organized. The presence of migrant children and adolescents became a topic of discussion in the State Board of Education and resulted in the drafting of Normative Resolution 002/2019 CEE/MT, valid for the State Education System. The objective of this dissertation is to analyze this resolution to identify the meanings produced in the normative text as a public educational policy aimed at the migrant and refugee population in the state of Mato Grosso, and to understand the discourses that permeate the state's imagination and form the ideological foundation regarding these subjects. Since this study is carried out within the scope of the Graduate Program in Letters, the assumptions of French Discourse Analysis were adopted, as well as the developments that occurred in Brazil with the studies of Eni Orlandi. Thus, Discourse Analysis is applied as an analytical method where the processes of signification and their historicity are of interest. Questions such as “who is the immigrant?”, “what do policies and the right to education say or silence about them?” and “what does the Resolution say about immigrants and where do these statements originate?” are fundamental questions in this study. Perceived from the perspective of Discourse Analysis, the resolution constitutes part of the normative discourse and is subject to the implications of the conditions of production in which it is inserted. The text presented in this qualification still has partial conclusions as it is still being developed.