Notes on the Subcitizenship of the Prison Population Versus Reinseration by Laboral Activity

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the construction of an ideal model of the individual within the market economy, promoted by the universalization of a concept of citizenship legitimized and justified by meritocracy. To this end, we work with the hypothesis that in a country marked by social inequalities such as Brazil, the emergence of subcitizens takes shape in the marginalization of protection guaranteed by human dignity and, therefore, subject to constant discrimination. Within this condition of subcitizenship, we prioritize studies on the prison population and labor activity configured in the instrument of reintegration, at the same time as guiding the construction of a citizen conscience among the detainees, so that they can understand their role in the social body. In this context, bibliographic research is used as a way of giving new insight to research already carried out on the subject. Finally, the core of the discussion on subcitizenship and essentialization is anchored in the perception that social, class and work differentiations need to transform the phenomena apprehended as routine in the material world, from the understanding that each person must be respected due to the inherent dignity, as an absolute value that the human being has because it constitutes an end in itself and not a means.