Racismo ambiental e seus impactos no acesso à moradia digna no bairro Porto Dantas em Aracaju-SE

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis (TCC) analyzes the phenomenon of environmental racism and its manifestations in the production and occupation of the urban space of Aracaju (SE), focusing on the Porto Dantas neighborhood. The investigation aims to understand the intersectionality between racial, social, and environmental inequalities in the denial of access to decent housing for the peripheral working class. The research shows how exclusionary urbanization and lack of urban planning resulted in housing precariousness and exposure to risks such as landslides and flooding in areas of disorderly occupation. The study is grounded in the historical-dialectical materialist method, which positions the environmental and urban question as expressions of contradictions inherent to the capitalist mode of production. For this purpose, bibliographic and documentary research methods were employed, based on data from Cadastro Único, IBGE, and Civil Defense Risk Mapping Reports, supported by critical theoretical frameworks. The results indicate that the Black population, the majority in the neighborhood, with high dependence on social assistance policies as per Cadastro Único data is the most affected by environmental impacts and territorial segregation, confirming environmental racism as a structural dimension of urban inequality. It is concluded that the realization of the right to the city and decent housing requires the inseparable articulation between social, environmental, and racial justice, and the reaffirmation of the role of Social Work in the intransigent defense of these rights.