A concepção de pobreza subjacente ao Programa Bolsa Família nos governos Lula : rumo à construção da cidadania?

• Autor(a) principal: Cassini, Lucas Arcanjo
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6521
• topic: Poverty; Family Allowance Program; Citizenship; Pobreza; Programa Bolsa Família; Cidadania; Serviço Social; Programa Bolsa Família (Brasil); 32

This work examines the conception of poverty underlying the Brazil's Family Allowance Program [Programa Bolsa Família] during the two mandates of President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. Supported on a bibliographical and documentary research, its main purpose is to verify whether that program, based on such a conception, is essentially made up of compensatory arrangements or whether it provides real opportunities of access to citizenship. It was intended to evaluate the hypothesis according to which that conception of poverty constitutes a strategy to lead the poor people to conform with their own situation, even though the Family Allowance Program provides some small improvements in their life conditions. Although that program is currently the main component of the Brazilian social protection system, this work s main conclusions are as follows: in the Family Allowance Program s accomplishment, the concrete positiveness of the poor people is not considered only their lacks are taken into account; poverty is not conceived as a multifaceted phenomenon, for only monetary income criterion is used to define who is in such a social condition; as that criterion is too narrow, the program does not assist many poor families; for the program at issue does not promote the autonomy of the assisted families and does not affect, in a essential way, the social relationships prevailing in the Brazilian society relations marked by extreme inequalities , it does not help poor to build conditions for the exercise of a protagonist citizenship.