A Conversa with Sedi Hirano, Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Racism at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

Professor Hirano will address the mechanisms around the production and persistence of poverty and inequality in Brazil, particularly the capitalist market logic that imposes formal requirements on potential workers which in turn creates a large unemployable population in Brazil who are destined for poverty and social exclusion. This population of informal workers lack job security and are therefore deeply vulnerable and highly dependent on state sponsored cash transfer programs, such as Bolsa Família. Professor Hirano will analyze whether Bolsa Família is an effective policy of social inclusion or yet another mechanism that reproduces preexisting structures of exclusion.

Light Brazilian lunch
Free and open to the public
Consecutive translation will be provided

This event is co-sponsored with The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures