Diritti e repressione nella “cracolandia”. Riflessioni a partire dal programma De Braços Abertos/Rights and repression in "cracolandia". Reflections starting from the De Braços Abertos program

Guided by the experience as researcher in the region stigmatized as “crackland”, in Sao Paulo, this article explores the recent ambivalence between the offer of rights, through the program De Bracos Abertos, and the continuity of the repressive activities in the region. Through the trajectory of Luana and quantitative and qualitative data from a preliminary research on the program, it seeks to show that such junction between rights and repression, in one way evokes the heterogeneity of the public actions and the contemporary State to these subjects, in another, it reveals, in the case of the policy on drugs, the hindrances on political actions considered progressive in front of the prohibitionist policy in force. The presentation aims to contribute both specifically to a more complex perspective on the public action as to, in an amplified way, to the reflection on the new combinatory modes, maybe constitutive nexus, between rights and repression, care and control, compassion and order, present in the contemporary form of “managing precariousness”.