O Programa Bolsa-Família em um contexto de cidades rurais: o caso de Bambuí-MG

• Autor(a) principal: Rios, Denis Fernando Fraga
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3351
• topic: Programa Bolsa-Família; Empoderamento; Inclusão social; The family grant program; Empowering; Social inclusion; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA DOMESTICA

It is known that there is a high concentration of income and unequal richness distribution in Brazil, with 21.5% of the population living below poverty line of poverty expressing a great segment of unattended people, living in misery and far from social rights. Brazil has been adopting public policies in social programs aiming at decreasing social differences and vulnerabilities. The Family Grant Program created in January 2004 aims at fighting against famine, misery and promoting and emancipating the poorest families in Brazil, by directly transferring income according to criteria installed by the Law 10.836/2004. Thus, the objective of this was to examine the reality of the FGP (Family Grant Program) in empowering and promoting social inclusion of the families assisted in Bambui/MG, in a rural context as an empirical field. The subjects of the research were the program manager of the city council and 160 families supported by the program extratified proportionally, in a qualitative-quantitative approach with a exploratory-descriptive character in semi-structured interviews. The data were analised with descriptive statistics. The results showed that the city manager sees the program as a way to stimulate the autonomy of the families and access to universal rights, but without leaving the condition of vulnerability because of the lack of complementary programs. In turn, the families sees the FGP with the character of increasing family income and help to fight against famine, which is expressed in a frail citizenship, with limited access to the items relative to everyday survivor. These results reinforced the theory that in Bambuí, the FGP is based only in the tranference of income not making possible to leave poverty and not empowering nor socially including these people, which are tackled only by articulated actions of social mobilization in the context of state action which focuses in the family, income generation, professional qualification and citizenship which do not exist in the city.