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The technical and legal language of Brazilian migration legislation constitutes a significant barrier to information access for migrants and refugees in situations of social, linguistic, and legal vulnerability. This article presents the LexiC Platform, a web-based computational infrastructure for the collaborative management of terminological data, applied to the Computerized Terminological Glossary of Brazilian Migration Legislation. The research question guiding the proposal is how terminological data extracted through well-established corpus analysis tools can be systematized in a collaborative digital environment so as to preserve methodological consistency, traceability, and the integrity of conceptual relations across a distributed terminographic workflow. The proposal draws on the communicative approach to Terminology (Cabré, 1999, 2005), user-oriented functional lexicography (Tarp, 2008, 2012), and Corpus Linguistics methodologies (Biber, Conrad & Reppen, 1998). The Platform organizes terminographic work into interdependent workflows, covering structured data entry, methodological validation, collaborative review, and automated generation of terminographic products, operationalized through computerized records with more than 60 standardized fields. The specialized corpus comprises approximately 150,000 words, covers laws and decrees published between 2017 and 2025, and includes around 270 terms at different stages of description. Results indicate that terminological rigor, collaborative infrastructure, and user orientation produce resources that are accessible, and socially relevant.