Interculturalidade e políticas públicas: o confronto com a lógica Warao no Maranhão

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the contradictions that exist in the relationship between the Warao indigenous people, who are refugees in Brazil, and Brazilian society, specifically in the state of Maranhão, more precisely among those who are in charge of political decisions. Based on the migration carried out by the Warao throughout the Brazilian territory, it demonstrates that these situations occur in the midst of intercultural relations, which in fact do not produce transformations in the Warao reality, but are based on impositions outside their logic, in which they were forced to be inserted and which determine the control of all processes of access to basic rights. These impositions occur from the categories that are used to define this people to the public policies themselves, regarding the form of treatment in finalistic actions. In this way, the objective is to critically analyze these categories, as well as to analyze how the National Policy for Refugees, here centered on Operation Acolhida, and the actions aimed at this people in Maranhão, have carried out their actions and what the results have been, considering that they are different cultural sides and, because of this, can result in conflicting relationships. The research, of a bibliographic nature, also used interviews and photographs, where it was possible to observe the persistent permanence of the State's dominance at all levels in directing public policies and specific actions for the War