Cosmopolitismo, sentido de lugar e acesso à Justiça do Trabalho: o turn isolacionista na política migratória e as fronteiras digitais do Pje-JT

Abstract

The article investigates the extent to which the isolationist turn in global migration policy is expressed not only in the state management of national borders but also in digital and procedural borders that affect migrant workers’ access to Brazil’s Labor Justice system, especially following the centrality of PJe‑JT and the so-called digital jus postulandi. Starting from the debate between cosmopolitanism and parochialism, it draws on the contributions of Seyla Benhabib, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and the Kantian tradition of cosmopolitan right, articulating them with the notion of sense of place as a fertile functioning in De Shalit, as well as with Miller and Straehle on climate vulnerability and cultural loss. It argues that the normative-technological design of PJe‑JT, together with regulatory fragmentation and the absence of an institutional policy of “procedural hospitality” for migrants, tends to produce legal displacement: even when physically present in the territory, many workers remain symbolically outside the “place” of Labor Justice. As the central hypothesis, it contends that a rooted cosmopolitan reading of Labor Justice—understood as an institution committed to the equal dignity of all workers, nationals and foreigners—requires rethinking service flows, language, digital accessibility, and the handling of evidence, so as to reconstruct Labor Justice as a space of belonging and recognition for people on the move.