Lei de cotas: estudo do perfil socioeconômico dos alunos matriculados no IFPB - Campus Sousa.

Abstract

The creation of affirmative actions aimed at benefiting rural students, whether from families assisted by the National Program for the Strengthening of Family Farming (PRONAF), agrarian reform settlers and / or rural employees, is an instrument of effective citizenship. . The article aims to analyze the policy of reserving vacancies for children of Pronafian families, agrarian reform settlers and rural employees; identify the courses that adopt this quota within the Sousa Campus and present the number of places reserved for these rural students, as well as investigate the socioeconomic profile of students entering the Agrarian Reform (ARA) quota. The methodology used in the investigation is from the perspective of qualitative and quantitative research, indirect and descriptive documentation. Data collection was carried out at the Campus Sousa of the Federal Institute of Paraiba and had as target audience students enrolled in recent years, covering the period from 2014 to 2019, whose entry was through the quota for Settlers of Agrarian Reform (ARA).The survey results indicate that the adoption of the Quota Law represented an undeniable advance in relation to democratization, regarding access to historically excluded groups provided for in the law. However, there are still few institutions that use quotas to benefit the children of Pronafian families, land reform settlers and rural employees. Therefore, in view of the noticeable disadvantage in competition between urban and rural students, there is still much to be done to achieve the objectives of this affirmative action: democratization of access to Higher and Technical Education, desegregation of school space, effectiveness of citizenship for rural students.