Estudo do sentido e significado nas narrativas de trabalhadores refugiados em uma organização de Curitiba

Abstract

In recent years, the issue of refugee movement has gained increasing proportions, making the topic the subject of debate among the main world leaders, which has led to discussions about what to do with the growing number of people who choose countries like Brazil to settle. There is a lack of knowledge about how these people experience and mean the integration to our country. The objective of this research was to understand the meanings and significance of refugees working in an organization in Curitiba. To understand and recover the meanings that workers construct about their experiences is to humanize labor relations. The study is justified by the need to search for a greater understanding of the psychosocial aspects that involve the dynamics of social relations between refugee and Brazilian employees within the organization researched to support integration programs. This is a qualitative exploratory and interpretive study in which five refugee workers, three Brazilian workers, and three Brazilian managers were interviewed. A semi-structured interview script with open-ended questions was used and analyzed according to discourse analysis procedures. The results reveal that the delay in receiving the necessary documents for formal work inclusion, the difficulty of understanding and expression in language, and the cultural differences in social treatment in inter-individual relationships are barriers that hinder the integration of the refugees studied, pointing to the need for the inclusion of these dimensions in refugee integration programs in the organizational context.