A Vulnerabilidade Dos Pescadores Artesanais Brasileiros: Uma Análise Sociodemográfica

Abstract

A category of fundamental importance in the context of professional fishing in the Brazil, artisanal fishers live in condition of vulnerability threatened by various vulnerability processes that permeate their own social and cultural reproduction. This article aims to produce a sociodemographic analysis about these workers in order to subsidize the elaboration of public policies that aim to overcome their vulnerability condition. Therefore, firstly, this paper reflected about the Brazilian artisanal fishingfrom specialized literature on the subject, with the help of the concepts of risk, danger, vulnerability and vulnerability processes. In addition, using the software R-Studio version 1.1.463, the regional sociodemographic and household characteristics of Brazilian artisanal fishers were quantitatively analyzed using the 2018 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNADC) microdata. This article concludes that this group has characteristics that denote their vulnerability condition, with regional differences in Brazil’s territory, which are reinforced by vulnerability processes, such as environmental degradation, industrialization, urbanization, overfishing, among others, which also have regional differences in their occurrence. Therefore, it is necessary that public policies that focus on these workers consider the complexity of factors that configure such condition, including the interregional discrepancy, improving their responsiveness to risks and dangers.