Residency period: March 3 to December 31, 2025
Faculty of Letters of UFMG
Glaucia Muniz Proença Lara holds a PhD in Semiotics and General Linguistics from the University of São Paulo (1999), with a one-year internship at the Université Paris-Nanterre. She completed three postdoctoral internships: 1) Discursive Semiotics (April-September 2002), supervised by Jacques Fontanille (Université de Limoges – France); 2) French Discourse Analysis (DA) (August 2012-July 2013), supervised by Sírio Possenti from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and Dominique Maingueneau (Université Paris IV – Sorbonne; 3) French AD (August 2019-July 2020), supervised by Beth Brait in the postgraduate program in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (LAEL/PUC-SP) and by Dominique Ducard from the University Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne (Université Paris-Est Créteil – UPEC). She is a full professor at the Faculty of Letters (Fale) of UFMG, working both in undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of Text/Discourse Studies, with an emphasis on the following themes: discourse genres, teaching reading and text production, discourses of subjects in vulnerable situations. She is a founder and emeritus member of the Centro-Oeste Language Study Group (GELCO), and has also participated in the board of directors of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN – 2005-2007). She was coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Linguistic Studies (PosLin) at UFMG in the 2017-2019 biennium. Among her most recent publications, the following books stand out: Living on the other side of the Atlantic: stories of Brazilians in Portugal (Grácio Editor, 2021) and Between experiences and memories: life narratives of Brazilian migrants in Europe (Pontes, 2023). She is a CNPq Research Productivity scholarship holder.
MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: BETWEEN LIFE NARRATIVES, LAWS AND PUBLIC POLICIES
The main objective of this project is to analyze, in the light of French Discourse Analysis (FDA), in dialogue with other disciplines and theories, given the transdisciplinary nature of FDA, life narratives of migrants and refugees living in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, in order to address issues related to how they report their reception in Brazil and their process of integration into the new society. Their narratives, obtained through semi-structured interviews, will be compared to what is provided for in Brazilian legislation (Law No. 9,474/97, Law 13,445/17, among others) and in public policies focused on refuge and migration to verify whether and to what extent theory and practice align in the reception/integration of displaced individuals.
The expected results are, among others: 1) to give the voice to the research participants so that they can narrate what it is like to be/live as a migrant/refugee and, by sharing their stories in events and publications, to raise awareness among the general population about the conditions of displacement; 2) to emphasize, to migrants and refugees, the importance of knowing their rights and guarantees provided for in Brazilian legislation, as well as the need to investigate and participate in public policies that can help them better adapt to the Brazilian context; 3) to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences with researchers from other faculties/institutions, inside and outside UFMG.