*The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies and the Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures** present*
*Inequality and Poverty in Brazil: Public Policies of Inclusion or
Structured Exclusion? *
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 - 1730 Cambridge Street
Free and open to the public
Consecutive translation will be provided
A light Brazilian lunch will be offered
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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