The escape from a reality that is often of hunger, misery and violence seen better days of hope at the time of arrival to the Marvelous City. But on the way refugees who choose Rio de Janeiro are racism, the difficulty of inclusion and xenophobia – factors that make frequent victims of violations when they seek employment.
Caritas- RJ posing done at the request of CNN It reveals that only in 2021, 67 refugees denounced violations of their labor rights.
The legal coordinator of Caritas, Larissa Moura Getirana says it receives many complaints that employers threaten refugees. “The employer says that if the refugee go to court, you lose the right to reside in Brazil. And that’s not true, despite being a recurrent threat. “
The issue came to light after the death of Moïse Kabagambe, beaten to death at the end of January. The Civil Police and the Ministry of Labor are investigating whether his death is related to collection of two daily service that you were not paid.
“We have cases of labor analogous to slavery, false imprisonment maids. And a sense of employers that refugees will not come to court, “said Larissa Getirana.
One of the cases related to discrimination of refugees is being serviced by the lawyer Bianca Bomfim Carelli, representing the Angolan Filomena Diassonama. In Brazil since 2017, last year she got a job as a stock clerk in a supermarket chain. He made the selection process, received the badge and was waived on the first day of work: she wore braids, which, she said, are a mark of their relationship with their culture and country.
“Braid is something that has to white people using. But I would use cap. Does that interfere with anything? I think it does not interfere. I was laid off on my first day of work,” he said.
Congo, Moïse, and Angola, Filomena, are the two countries that sent more blacks who were enslaved in Rio de Janeiro between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries: about 720,000 only in the eighteenth century, according to Emory University , from United States. At this time, the black were measured for its physical strength, its supposed inability to feel pain. Dehumanized.
Time has passed and history has not changed. “We’ve heard from employers that they put very heavy loads to see if the ‘black’ can handle this excessive burden of physical labor. It is something that has held for centuries a slave mentality that remains today, “he said.
Source: CNN Brasil
