Segregação socioespacial em cidades pequenas da Amazônia: abordagem a partir do bairro Nova Oeiras, em Oeiras do Pará – PA

Abstract

Currently, studies on socio-spatial segregation have different approaches to explain the unequal reality of Brazil, taking into account the different Brazilian cities and their specificities. The different forms that socio-spatial segregation manifests are inserted in the production of space. Urban processes, such as segregation, can be produced by a range of agents that produce urban space, and there is a need to identify these agents and their mechanisms appropriation of space. That said, this work intends to investigate the process of socio-spatial segregation in a particular Brazilian reality, which refers to the typology of riverside city. The general objective of this study is to understand the process of socio-spatial segregation in the Nova Oeiras neighborhood, in the small town of Oeiras do Pará - PA. The method used to fulfill the theoretical objectives was historical and dialectical materialism, first of all the theoretical surveys about the concept of socio-spatial segregation, and riverside city. The research techniques used in this study were interviews with agents of the municipal government, and interviews with the heads of families of the neighborhood. Fieldwork was carried out for spatial data collections, photographs and systematic observation of Nova Oeiras. Finally, it was found that socio-spatial segregation manifests itself through precarious housing, insufficient services concentration of the low-income population, with a lack of jobs. The neighborhood is a precarious settlement located in the expansion zone, made up of residents of predominantly rural origin, riverside dwellers, farmers, fishermen, who experience the old segregative processes linked to the center-periphery model