Do Tabor ao Safira, participação vazia e solução única:

um caso de reassentamento urbano em São Paulo

Abstract

This study analyses a case of involuntary resettlement by the perspective of the residents. The interviews held at the place of residence made it possible to know the initial stages of arrival and adaptation to the new housing, observe the operationalization of the urban resettlement policy and report the residents' social perception of the difficulties and challenges faced on the route. The research demonstrated that the conduct of the urban resettlement policy produced an empty participation of meaning and passive attitude, presenting a unique solution far from the way of life that the residents lived in Tabor and asymmetric as to the socioeconomic reality of the relocated residents. The residents' different perceptions about the urban resettlement policy suggest that the perspective of rights did not prevail, leaving the State's action in a space of symbolic confusion between rights, exchange, and blessing.