“Aqui a pandemia não acabou”: vivências e acessos aos direitos sociais em territórios periféricos da zona leste de São Paulo/SP em contexto de pandemia de COVID-19

Abstract

The research encourages debates and reflections on the State, public policies and access to rights by the population from the working class, residing in peripheral territories of São Paulo/SP, located in the area of jurisdiction of Regional Forum V – São Miguel Paulista, in the midst of the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, which broke out in mid-March 2020. To this end, we carried out a bibliographical review, accessing life stories through oral history and documentary research, through interviews with people treated at the Children and Youth Court (VIJ) of the aforementioned Forum, and consultations on procedural documents. We sought to understand elements inherent to the experiences and access to social rights and social protection in these territories, as well as analyzing how the Child and Adolescent Rights Guarantee System performed, in judicialized cases, involving demands for protective measures, custody and registration civil society in this region. The stories accessed reveal the worsening of the State's social lack of protection and the burden on families and communities in accumulating tasks and protecting their members, as well as finding their own solutions and strategies for survival in the context of the pandemic, with its effects lasting after recognition. officially its end by the World Health Organization (WHO) in May 2023. Thus, based on the study carried out, it is intended to contribute to expanding the scientific knowledge inherent to the topic, recording this historical moment and the impacts on the lives of the subjects who they live from work and their families. Furthermore, it is proposed to encourage new reflections and give visibility to the absences of the State, in addition to encouraging the construction of studies committed to critical thinking and the promotion of social rights, paying attention to the different realities of the territories