Perfil socioeconômico de migrantes da pesca residentes na área metropolitana de Belém.

Abstract

The migratory process of fishing populations to the metropolitan area of Belém has intensified in recent decades. The identification and characterization of the social conditions, as well as the apprehension of the causes that motivate such displacement are the objectives of this study. The migrant fishermen were identified through participant research using the "informant network" technique, which consists of the multiplication of informants through the indication of their peers. The study was restricted to one of the "ends" of the process - that of immigration. The fisherman migrates to the urban centers due to the extremely unfavorable situation this category is going through, caused by a "modernizing" process planned and implemented in the Amazon region over the last decades, by which fishermen are seen as representatives of an "obsolete" fishing practice. Their marginalization is evident in the lack of official incentive, coupled with the precarious infrastructure to which the fishing areas are immemorially relegated, and the ineffectiveness of legal agents to curb the damaging actions of the industrial sector. In the urban center this population conforms to the "wild urbanization", which is the multiplication of "invasion" areas (favelas), and the informal market (in which odd jobs are the most common practice). Few manage to keep their original profession. The recovery of artisanal fishing is conditioned, therefore, to the elimination of the mentioned problems. This sector must receive from the official means the attention compatible with the socioeconomic importance of this activity, making its full exercise possible (CNPq, FNMA).