Indígenas nas cidades: O desafio da efetivação de direitos

Abstract

The native presence in the cities has been increasing significantly in the last two decades, the migration is caused by the possibility of basic services access as education, health and employment. Most of the native families which are in the cities face precarious conditions, since they reside in the peripheral areas, besides, daily they coexist with the discrimination, the institutional prejudice and the absence of public policies that attend the specific demands of the urban villages. In this work, the central concern is to perceive the reality of access to the native rights in Marabá city, individually, in familiar centers, or through the established relations with native organizations in urban contexts. In this sense, this work searches to understand from native interlocutors how it is the relation with the representatives of the organs that develop activities near the native people, among which, the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), the Special Secretariat of Native Health (SESAI) and the State Secretariat of Education (SEDUC), analyzing how the natives live in Marabá, have (or not) the access to their rights and how they prepare strategies of tackling. This work discusses the intervention of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) in the mediation and direction of the demands and in the effectiveness of the native rights in Maraba.