Andrea Maria Calazans Pacheco Pacifico

@uepb.edu.br

Associate Professor at International Relations School
Paraiba State University

Andrea Maria Calazans Pacheco Pacifico


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Associate Professor of International Relations and the Under-Graduate and Graduate Programme of International Relations, Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair, and
Study and Research Centre on Environmentally Displaced Persons (NEPDA) Coordinator, at State University of Paraiba (, Brazil.
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Full Research Collaborator at the Graduate Programme of Comparative Studies on the Americas, at University of Brasilia/Brazil( (2019-2023)
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Senior Research Associate, at the Refugee Law Initiative, at the University of London/UK (

EDUCATION

PhD in Social Sciences - Sociology (Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
LLM/MA in International Law and Politics/International Relations (Lancaster University, UK)
LLB in Law (Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil)

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Law
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Scopus Publications

300

Scholar Citations

9

Scholar h-index

8

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • A human rights-based approach to protect environmentally displaced persons
    Handbook on Migration and Human Rights, 2025
  • Venezuelan Forced Migrants and Refugees in Brazil and Ecuador: Security Issues and Social Provision during the COVID‐19 Pandemic
    Andrea P. Pacifico, Johnatan Da Costa Santos, F.L. Silva Silva
    Vestnik Rudn International Relations, 2022
    The worsening economic and social crisis in Venezuela has led to a massive flow of Venezuelan migrants to neighbouring Latin American countries. The influx of forced migrants from Venezuela has challenged the regional security of Latin American countries, which were already experiencing structural and social problems. Brazil and Ecuador, where a significant number of Venezuelan nationals arrived, faced great obstacles in providing the arriving migrants with access to health care and education for their children, jobs, while at the same time meeting the needs and social problems of the local population. After the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, social problems such as health, education, job access, security, and governance have proven to be the most challenging in the region. However, as the pandemic situation showed, regional leaders were negligent in their response to the disease and refused to cooperate in addressing the problem, with dire consequences. This article analyses the impact of the Brazilian and Ecuadorian immigration laws and asylum policy on the protection of Venezuelans’ forced migrants and refugees who entered Brazil and Ecuador before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a regional security issue, the protection of Venezuelans is the basis for regional stability, which can only be achieved through cross-issue persuasion. The article, therefore, concludes that Brazil and Ecuador, after having created rules and implemented public policies before and after the pandemic, in cooperation or not with diverse international and national actors, to host and integrate Venezuelan citizens in both countries, have followed their commitment in accordance with previously adopted international and regional agreements, and domestic laws.
  • The refugees' reception in the European Union due to the securitization of migration in the region
    Ana Beatriz da Costa Mangueira, Andrea Maria Calazans Pacheco Pacifico, Fábio Rodrigo Ferreira Nobre, Filipe Reis Melo
    Estudos Internacionais, 2019
    O artigo trata do acolhimento dos refugiados na União Europeia, e possui como principal objetivo analisar esse acolhimento, considerando a securitização da migração como um empecilho para a proteção dos refugiados. Para conduzir a discussão sobre a temática, busca-se examinar a discussão política sobre as migrações forçadas na União Europeia, tendo como foco os refugiados e utilizando-se do exemplo da Itália. Além disso, outros objetivos subjacentes ao principal intento desta investigação buscam apresentar a importância da integração institucional e humanitária dos refugiados no local de acolhimento e, por fim, identificar soluções a fim de melhorar o acolhimento dos refugiados nos países da União Europeia. Observa-se que os Estados se eximem da sua responsabilidade enquanto importantes atores para a proteção desses migrantes forçados. Portanto, é necessário refletir sobre as medidas que contribuam para uma maior cooperação dos Estados, em vez de reforçar a securitização da migração local.
  • O terrorismo islâmico e a política estadunidense de reassentamento de refugiados sírios
    Igor Henriques Sabino de Farias, Alexandre Cesar Cunha Leite, Andrea Maria Calazans Pacheco Pacífico
    Austral Brazilian Journal of Strategy and International Relations, 2018
    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.
  • Humanitarian asylum for forced migrants: The case of haitians' arrival in Brazil
    Andrea P. Pacifico, E. Ramos
    Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law Current Protection Challenges, 2015
  • Humanitarian Asylum for Forced Migrants: The Case of Haitians' Arrival in Brazil
    Andrea P. Pacifico, E. Ramos
    International Refugee Law Series, 2015
  • A network society communicative model for optimizing the refugee status determination (RSD) procedures
    Andrea Pacheco Pacífico
    Revista Brasileira De Politica Internacional, 2013
    This article recommends a new way to improve Refugee Status Determination (RSD) procedures by proposing a network society communicative model based on active involvement and dialogue among all implementing partners. This model, named after proposals from Castells, Habermas, Apel, Chimni, and Betts, would be mediated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), whose role would be modeled after that of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) practice.
  • Donation and adoption as ways of saving excess frozen human embryos
    Revista Brasileira De Saude Materno Infantil, 2010

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A human rights-based approach to protect environmentally displaced persons
    AP Pacifico
    Handbook on Migration and Human Rights, 327-348 , 2025
    2025
  • Deslocados internos ambientais de Maceió, Brasil (2018-2023): Abordagem jurídica e política do desastre da Braskem.
    AP Pacífico, PR Rodrigues de Melo, RB Timóteo
    O Social em Questão , 2025
    2025
  • Historical Approach of Internal Environmental Displacement of People in Latin America and the Caribbean Basin
    T Franciely de Melo Silva, A Pacheco Pacifico
    Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean … , 2025
    2025
  • Environmentally Displaced Persons from Companies’ Threats: The Braskem Disaster in Maceio, Brazil
    A Pacheco Pacifico, MB Volz, D Annoni
    Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean … , 2025
    2025
  • Legal Approaches for Protection of Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in Latin American
    A Pacheco Pacifico, EP Ramos, PG Noschang
    Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean … , 2025
    2025
  • Historical Approach of Internal Environmental Displacement of People
    AP Pacifico
    Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean … , 2025
    2025
  • Internal Environmental Displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean
    AP Pacifico, TF de Melo Silva, ...
    2025
  • Cooperação internacional como instrumento de ação humanitária no acolhimento de crianças venezuelanas deslocadas no Brasil
    KQ Façanha, AMCP Pacífico
    OBSERVATÓRIO DE LA ECONOMÍA LATINOAMERICANA 21 (12), 23826-23846 , 2023
    2023
  • As consequências dos atentados de 11 de setembro de 2001 para a economia brasileira
    JC Soares, AMCP Pacífico
    Brazilian Journal of International Relations 12 (1), 45-60 , 2023
    2023
  • A Resolução do Conflito Israelo-Libanês pelo Conselho de Segurança da ONU (2006)
    JC Soares, AMCP Pacífico
    Brazilian Journal of International Relations 12 (1), 5-22 , 2023
    2023
  • A INTEGRAÇÃO SUL-AMERICANA E O DESENVOLVIMENTO ECONÔMICO BRASILEIRO (1991-2010).
    J Soares, AM Calazans Pacheco Pacífico
    Geosul 38 (86) , 2023
    2023
  • A proteção nacional e internacional aos deslocados ambientais no município de João Pessoa (PB)
    MPS Matteucci, AMCP Pacifico, JPF de Vasconcelos Granja
    Ciência & Trópico 46 (2) , 2022
    2022
  • REGIMES REGIONAIS E A PROTEÇÃO DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS DA PESSOA REFUGIADA
    MDFO LEAL, AKL CARDOSO, AMCP PACÍFICO
    Mnemosine Revista 13 (1), 76-90 , 2022
    2022
  • Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in the Northeastern Backlands of Brazil: A Case Study
    AP Pacifico
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 9
  • Latin America and Refugee Protection
    AP Pacifico
    Journal of Internal Displacement 12 (2), 2-4 , 2022
    2022
  • A proteção nacional e internacional aos deslocados ambientais no município de João Pessoa.
    AM Calazans Pacheco Pacífico, JP Ferreira de Vasconcelos Granja, ...
    Ciência & Trópico (03042685) 46 (2) , 2022
    2022
  • A new book on internal and international displacement
    AP Pacifico
    Journal of Internal Displacement 12 (2), 1-4 , 2022
    2022
  • МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
    AP Pacifico, J da Costa Santos, SFL Silva
    2022
  • Venezuelan forced migrants and refugees in Brazil and Ecuador: Security issues and social provision during the COVID-19 pandemic
    SFL Silva
    Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные … , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 3
  • Regime stretching para proteger migrantes forçados no Brasil
    AP Pacifico, TF de Melo Silva, PRL Kuhlmann
    Textos & Contextos (Porto Alegre) 20 (1), e37773-e37773 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • O capital social dos refugiados: bagagem cultural e políticas públicas
    AMCP Pacífico
    Edufal , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 39
  • A proteção dos deslocados ambientais no regime internacional dos refugiados
    AP Pacífico, MRB Gaudêncio
    REMHU: Revista interdisciplinar da mobilidade humana 22 (43), 133-148 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 38
  • O status do imigrante haitiano no Brasil após o terremoto de 2010 sob a perspectiva do Pós-Estruturalismo
    AP Pacifico, TKF Pinheiro
    Revista Perspectivas do Desenvolvimento: um enfoque multidimensional 1 (1 … , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 29
  • A proteção sociojurídica dos refugiados no Brasil
    AMCP Pacífico, RL Mendonça
    Textos & Contextos (Porto Alegre) 9 (1), 170-181 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 24
  • O capital social dos refugiados: bagagem cultural versus políticas públicas
    AMCP Pacífico
    Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 23
  • The migration of Haitians within Latin America: significance for Brazilian law and policy on asylum and migration
    AP Pacifico, EP Ramos, C Abreu Bastista Claro, NB Cavalcante de Farias
    School of Advanced Study, University of London , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 15
  • Os tratados internacionais eo direito constitucional brasileiro
    AMCP Pacífico
    Brasília Jurídica , 2002
    2002
    Citations: 11
  • A cooperação como instrumento para fortalecer a integração de migrantes forçados venezuelanos na Paraíba em 2018
    AMCP Pacífico, SFL Silva
    Monções: revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD 8 (16), 308-334 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 10
  • Environmentally Internally Displaced Persons in the Northeastern Backlands of Brazil: A Case Study
    AP Pacifico
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 9
  • A proteção nacional e internacional aos deslocados ambientais: os deslocados do sertão nordestino brasileiro
    AMCP Pacífico, RAL de Araújo Neto
    Editora Lumen Juris , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 9
  • Humanitarian Asylum for Forced Migrants: the case of Haitians’ arrival in Brazil
    AP Pacífico, ÉP Ramos
    Exploring the Boundaries of Refugee Law, 218-239 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 7
  • Atuação da rede local na proteção de migrantes venezuelanos durante a pandemia de COVID-19 na paraíba
    SFL Silva, AP Pacífico
    Anais do V SERPINF e III SENPINF 1, 1-13 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 6
  • A necessidade de criação de um regime ambiental internacional: o caso dos deslocados ambientais
    A PACÍFICO
    Meridiano 47, 3-9 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 6
  • Doação e adoção como políticas para salvar os embriões humanos excedentes e congelados
    GO Pereira, AP Pacifico
    Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil 10, s391-s397 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 6
  • The social capital of refugees: Cultural background and public policies
    AMCP Pacífico
    REMHU-Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 17 (33), 37-60 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 6
  • O Estado da Arte sobre refugiados, deslocados internos, deslocados ambientais e apátridas no Brasil: atualização do Diretório Nacional do ACNUR de teses, dissertações …
    AP Pacífico, AT Pinheiro, JPFV Granja, A Varela
    EDUEPB , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 5
  • Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime. By Alexander Betts.
    AP Pacifico
    Journal of Refugee Studies 24 (2), 422-424 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 5
  • O retorno à política de segurança nacional: Uma ameaça aos migrantes e refugiados no Brasil
    ISV Arcos, AP Pacifico, SF Costa
    Anais do V SERPINF e III SENPINF 1, 18-34 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 4
  • A proteção aos refugiados na Paraíba: uma análise descritiva do Programa Nacional de Interiorização (PNI) dos venezuelanos
    AP PACÍFICO, M SANTANA, SFL SILVA
    Migrações Venezuelanas, Campinas, NEPO UNICAMP, 271-275 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 4
  • Protection of the environmentally displaced in the International regime of refugees
    AP Pacífico, MRB Gaudêncio
    REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 22, 133-148 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 4

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Senior Research Associate at the Unviersity of London Refugee Law Initiative, UK.