COLONIALITY AND CONTROL BY PUBLIC SECURITY – RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA ON THE BRAZIL-BOLIVIA BORDER

Abstract

The colonial structure creates a different kind of treatment for subalternized bodies within public security, which is responsible for controlling bodies. Racism and xenophobia are a part of the Brazil-Bolivia border, and even bodies subject to colonial control are treated differently than those afforded to the white elite. Given this, the following research question arises: to what extent does coloniality interfere with public security on the Brazil-Bolivia border? The general objective of this research is to infer the colonial structure and its process of extermination of bodies by public security. The specific objectives are to describe and understand colonialism in public security along the border and analyze the extent to which the process of criminalizing dominated bodies occurs. Colonialism creates structures responsible for total control while simultaneously treating these bodies differently, which, within the colonial structure, are useless and easily dispensable.