Assistência social: uma análise sobre a concepção dos usuários do centro de referência da assistência social - CRAS de Sousa-PB.

Abstract

This study addresses the issue of Brazilian social assistance policy, especially within the Basic Social Protection, in the current context of the crisis of capital, contrarreforma of the State and its impacts to face the expressions of the social question. In this context, there is the creation of the Unified Social Assistance System (ITS) as a form of reorganization and confirmation of registration of policy in the field of rights and even after the ITS deployment, there was a signal that the Centre's users Social-CRAS Assistance Reference Sousa-PB saw the Social Assistance as a favor, so, this study aimed to analyze the design of the same on the Social Assistance Policy, from the said system deployment. This is a bibliographic research, documentary and field, which had as data production tool semi-structured interview directed to the elderly and adolescents CRAS users because it was this public that had more contact during the supervised training. From the analysis and interpretation of data in a critical bias / reflective, we found that the design of users CRAS also points to the prevalence of social assistance as a favor, gift, charity or as "good deed for the mayor." So a context of crisis and worsening living conditions of workers, can enhance the history of Social Work as a charitable practice or confuse as a favor that the mayor ensures the poor, which further distance it to be seen as a right.