Proteção social básica voltada a imigrantes e refugiados no Brasil: o trabalho com a população venezuelana em Açailândia Maranhão

Abstract

The work aims to present research focused on basic social protection, aimed at immigrants and refugees in Brazil, highlighting the work of social assistance institutions with the Venezuelan population in the municipality of Açailândia-MA, presenting historical aspects of migration and the search for refuge in other countries, how to conceptualize such phenomena. It reports on the origin of the Venezuelan population of the Warao ethnic group today residing in the municipality, how they arrived in the city, their origin, some of their social organization characteristics and how they were included in public policies for basic social protection. A specific methodology was used in which qualitative bibliographical research was carried out on articles already published on the topic, analysis of projects from assistance institutions that work with this group and field research carried out in public bodies: DPE-MA, CRAS, SEMAS, CDVDH/CB, with the intention of clarifying questions about the object studied. A small excerpt is also made about this new expression of the social issue that arose in the city of Açailândia-MA and the difficulties faced by social service professionals in a time of global public calamity regarding the mass contamination of COVID-19, exactly at the time of arrival of the first refugees.