Narratives of the exclusion of migrants and refugees at the university

Abstract

In 2016, UFSM approved the Program for Access to Technical and Higher Education for Refugees and Immigrants in Vulnerability Situations. This is a modality of affirmative action with the objective of ensuring differentiated and simplified access for this social group at the University. While the policy for the entry of immigrants and refugees at UFSM is dialogical with the reality experienced by the migrant subject, their experience in the university environment reveals the face of exclusion. Thus, the study aims to demonstrate the structural elements of the process of inequality and exclusion of immigrants and refugees, reflected at the university level. To this end, the study used excerpts from semi-structured interviews with migrant students who report elements of structural exclusion. In the theoretical field, this article dialogues with two references that bring central categories of analysis in the field of migration, Sayad and Derrida, based on the ideas of "permanent provisority of the immigrant subject" and "conditioned hospitality.