LGBT+ INCLUSION AND PERMANENCE AT WORK: A PUBLIC POLICY ISSUE?

• Grant number: 22/13309-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2024
• End date: July 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Leonardo Lemos de Souza
• Grantee: Rafael Paulino Juliani
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/06175-4 - Madrid public policies on LGBTI inclusion and permanence in the workplace, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

This research aims to understand how LGBT+ people (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and other people of non-heterosexual and non-cisgender identities) evaluate their experiences of insertion and permanence in the labor market resulting from public policies based on affirmative action. This is because the presence of this social group, especially transvestites and transgender people, in the brazilian labor market is perceived in a very diminished way and through processes of precarious exclusion-inclusion. Abjected by a conservative, lgbtphobic and cisheteronormative society, brazilian LGBT+ workers are at the mercy of the few private initiatives for inclusion in work contexts, not without going through situations of prejudice and violence, since these organizational policies of diversity are often configured as Rainbow-Washing tactics (false social responsibility). However, although it is a place of suffering, work is desired and represented by these people as an important means to, in addition to material guarantees, allow their constructions and actions as social subjects. The mapping of affirmative actions of LGBT+ work and the understanding of the experiences of inclusion of these workers can provide relevant critical material to base the social debate and the development of similar public experiences, as well as the creation of a specific legal support. Thus, in a city in the interior of São Paulo and in a Spanish city that have public policies for LGBT+ inclusion at work, will be raised and analyzed, through the Analysis of Discursive Practices, the official documents that deal with these policies and information from interviews with LGBT+ workers benefiting from these inclusion programs.