Um estudo das estratégias de sobrevivência das famílias em extrema pobreza

Abstract

This study provides analysis about the survival strategies undertaken by households in extreme poverty living in the Village and St. Gerard II Industrial City in the neighborhood of the city of Montes Claros. Based on the understanding that poverty prevents the satisfaction of needs and confirms the precariousness of family relationships and social integration, presents reflections on concepts and creation of poverty, family survival strategies and typologies. In order to ensure the main objective to identify and analyze the survival strategies of experienced, was based on a qualitative methodology of an analytical rigor that followed a theoretical concept. It consists of research literature, documentary and field, having been used semi-structured interviews for data collection. For data analysis were applied types of Balsa et al (2000) and Sposati (1985) that culminated in the creation of a new typology grounded in practices that constitute survival strategies. The families interviewed have a membership of extreme precariousness powered by poverty-related income, education, housing, food, health, social services, among others. The inertia of the state of the multiple problems facing families makes more intensifies inequalities and increasing poverty. Survival strategies indicate the capacity of families to fight poverty through resources, and practices solidarity. However, they reveal the basic inequality, social and economic, that are installed in households and also that social development is achieved only when all forms of limitations are overcome through the establishment of public actions to revitalize families and ensure dignity of these.