Inequality and Poverty in
A Conversa with Sedi Hirano, Professor of Sociology and
Co-director of the
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Racism at the Universidade de São
Paulo (USP)
Professor Hirano will address the mechanisms around the production and
persistence of poverty and inequality in Brazil, particularly the
capitalist market logic that imposes formal requirements on potential
workers which in turn creates a large unemployable population in Brazil
who are destined for poverty and social exclusion. This population of
informal workers lack job security and are therefore deeply vulnerable
and highly dependent on state sponsored cash transfer programs, such as
Bolsa Família. Professor Hirano will analyze whether Bolsa Família is
an effective policy of social inclusion or yet another mechanism that
reproduces preexisting structures of exclusion.
Date: Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - TODAY
Time: 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: DRCLAS Resource Room S 216
Free and open to the public
Consecutive translation will be provided
A light Brazilian lunch will be offered
-- Marcio Siwi Fellow / Program Officer Brazil Studies Program Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA 02138 tel (617) 495-5435 http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil