Qualitative Study of Images on Migrant Venezuelan Children in Brazil

Abstract

This study sought to understand the reality of Venezuelan migrant children in Brazil, as shown on social media, in parallel with the images published by the official refugee protection agency. It is a documentary, exploratory and descriptive study, with a qualitative approach; made from 31 images published on the subject in electronic pages from January 2018 to February 2019. The Documentary Method of Interpretation, supported by the software webQDA, was used to analyze the images. The results, although partial, show children in refugee status in Brazil under the idealized perspective of the “role of the woman and the girl”, leaving untouched gender and generational subalternities. It is concluded that the qualitative methodology through the method of image analysis is quite revealing of ideologies, prejudices and stereotypes, being able to give new meanings for the understanding of this social phenomenon.