Os Desafios da Assistência Social em Ponta Porã - Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The present work has as main goal to analyze and debate on the care of migrants, refugees and stateless on the services offered by Social Assistance at the town of Ponta Porã, considering the difficulties with the lack of material of the, then, Ministery of Social Development and with specific qualification of the technical staff in the programs and services offered. It was also intended to contextualize the effects of the “diaspora” in the present time, resulting of globalization and capitalism, as well as speaking about the interconnection of the social assistance public policy as a guarantor of human rights and that has as one of its foundations the guarantee of rights in a non contributing way. The methodology used in the research was: bibliographic references, descriptive as analysis of documents, as: International Treaties, resolutions and administrative rules from the Federal Government and the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, centralizing the investigations in the social assistance public policies in the Municipal, State and Federal spheres, in regard to the border cities, the material, the funding and the qualification, especially in attending the migrant, refugee and stateless public. The city analyzed was Ponta Porã, a place where researches in loco were made on the Municipal Department of Assistance, providing contact with professionals that work in this department, reading of specific documents and, more importantly, acknowledging the reality of the programs and the services to the main public of this dissertation.