Masters Thesis

Brazil's militarized open border: the state of emergency that never ended

In 2015, Venezuela's economic and political crisis reached a point of state collapse. Political repression and currency devaluation led hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to flood the nearby states such as Columbia, Peru and Brazil. Some states like Brazil have responded to immigration with a military response. Yet, Brazil's militarization policy has only escalated the chaos of immigration. Why does Brazil continue a policy of militarization in response to immigration despite its failure? Building upon Graham Allison's bureaucratic politics model, I demonstrate the role of bureaucratic conflict in perpetuating Brazil's immigration policy.

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