COLONIALITY AND DECOLONIALITY IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ON MIGRANTS

Abstract

To analyze the representations of migrant subjects in children's literature on migrations, relatingthem to the perspective of decoloniality, in order to verify: whether the social representationspresent elements of coloniality or a decolonial perspective. The research is justified in view ofthe emergency global phenomenon of migration and of Brazil as a destination country forinternational migrants, needing to welcome these people, including public health and educationservices. The concepts of coloniality/decoloniality refer to domination based on the process ofcolonization by the subordination of races, ethnicities and genders and to the decolonialmovement that questions the logics and bases of this capitalist/modern power.