Proteção social na política de assistência social nos municípios de Amorinópolis e Iporá - Goiás: mecanismos de gestão e contradições

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the mechanisms, means and management instruments of the Social Assistance policy that identify it as a public policy of social protection. The research has as its object two municipalities located in the west of the state, namely Amorinópolis (small size I) and Iporá (small size II), which are geographically close and present distinctions in their physical structure and similarities in the scope of Social Protection in Assistance Social. It is emphasized that the social protection examined here is not impartial in guaranteeing social rights, but it still acts in a contradictory way by also preserving the interests of capital. The assumption of the research carried out is that Social Assistance alone is not capable of guaranteeing social protection in the face of the complexities of social needs and that its management mechanisms demand continuous renewal in the face of new and old expressions of the social question. It was found that, although the implementation of this policy in the country as a whole has occurred in the context of neoliberal hegemony, in the municipalities studied, advances in Social Assistance only occurred from the PNAS and NOB/SUAS. However, the historical heritage of conservatism, assistencialism and first damism, traits strongly preserved in the state of Goiás, does not overcome the traditional forms of Social Assistance management and exposes the contradictions of the institutionalization of SUAS and the attempt to reduce Social Assistance to just income transfer programs and benefits, an even more challenging reality in the current context of counter-reforms, lack of funding and denialism that confront the logic of law. The dissertation points out that given the current Brazilian situation, social protection is threatened by setbacks in social rights and by the ideology of the new right that controls the state, impregnated by neoliberal ideas. However, in the research it was found that the management mechanisms, if linked to the SUAS strategies, become inductors to face damismo, coronelismo and welfare, in addition to being an instrument for the realization of the right to social protection through the Social Assistance policy and other social policies