Vulnerabilidade socioeconômica e desigualdades no município de Santana do Ipanema - Alagoas uma discussão preliminar

Abstract

The objective of this research is to present the situation of socioeconomic vulnerability in which the municipality of Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, is immersed. In this sense, this work also seeks to present the social inequalities in the municipality of Santana do Ipanema, from the construction of a social historical panorama, whose objective is to highlight the social elements that drive and constitute the socioeconomic stratification and that, therefore, end up shaping the municipality's social indicators. It is noteworthy that the macroeconomics of Alagoas has its trade surplus based on the export of sugar cane and its derivatives, therefore, the region with the highest rainfall in the state ended up occupying its production area with these commodities, however, the economic activities inherent to monoculture of sugar were pressured to exist in the region that does not have a production support for this, the Semi-arid Alagoano. Thus, the foundation of the historical process in Alagoas, linked to an old policy of an outdated production method and to a poor fiscal policy, started to configure the municipalities of the Alagoas Sertão at a rate of economic and, therefore, social growth, very low. The methodology of this work consists of a literature review and also data obtained through the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the Institute for Applied Research and Economics (IPEA) and the Secretariat for Planning and Management (SEPLAG). In addition, an interview was conducted, which helped to obtain information for this research. This is an exploratory work, based on secondary data, and from the systematic information base, presented and discussed, it was possible to infer that the causes of social inequalities of rural populations in the semiarid Alagoano, and specifically in the municipality of Santana do Ipanema, have a historical and structural context of the way in which the Brazilian space was configured, where the characteristics of an outdated mode of production are still in force, which further accentuates the social problems in this region that has been cruelly marginalized by the historical process. Not to mention the influence of edaphoclimatic factors that generate barriers to the process of socioeconomic development, however, it does not prevent it.