期刊名称：Americanía: Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos
电子版ISSN：2174-0178
出版年度：2021
期号：14
页码：157-182
DOI：10.46661/americania.5857
语种：English
出版社：Universidad Pablo de Olavide
摘要：This article aims to analyze the perceptions of parliamentarians about contemporary slave labour in Brazil. We examined the opposition speeches to the Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) nº 438/2001, processed between 1999 and 2014. That proposal aimed to establish the expropriation of properties where such a form of work was found. From a methodological point of view, we use Critical Discourse Analysis. Several discursive strategies were identified in order to avoid the approval of the referred PEC. Among them, we chose to analyze the categories that we call ‘inversion of guilt’, ‘fantasy’, and ‘exceptionality’. The study of the speeches showed the inexistence of proposals of policies to confront the issue, policies that were pushed aside in the name of an evasive, conservative and even reactionary debate. We observed an evident concern of parliamentarians with agribusiness but a lesser concern in addressing the conditions in which the enslaved workers rescued by state inspection were found.
关键词：Modern slavery ; Labour analogous to slavery ; Legislative speech ; Brazil
