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O TERRORISMO ISLÂMICO E A POLÍTICA ESTADUNIDENSE DE REASSENTAMENTO DE REFUGIADOS SÍRIOS

2018; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL; Volume: 7; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22456/2238-6912.83162

2238-6912

Igor Henriques Sabino de Farias, Alexandre César Cunha Leite, Andréa Maria Calazans Pacheco Pacífico,

Religion and Society in Latin America

This article addresses the refusal of US policy, between 2016 and 2017, to resettle Syrian refugees from the Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011 and has forced millions of Syrians to migrate to neighboring countries or to the West. Thus, the hypothesis defended is that the terrorist attacks by Islamic radicals in the US contributed to the increase of prejudice and generalization regarding Arabs and Muslims and, therefore, the Syrian refugees would be conceived as probable threats to the national security. In order to verify this, we present a bibliographical review confirmed by some secondary descriptive data on the perception of the American society on the Syrian and Muslim refugees. The work of Said (1993) on Orientalism, as well as the writings of Huntington (1993, 1997) on the Clash of Civilizations, are used as theoretical reference. Finally, it is concluded that the US refusal to resettle Syrian refugees is mainly due to traumas related to Arabs and Muslims, as well as national security concerns, albeit unfounded.