Programa Jovem Aprendiz e a questão racial no Brasil: impactos na vida escolar e na vulnerabilidade da juventude afrodescendente.

Abstract

The Young Apprentice Program (PJA) was regularized by the Law N. 10. 097, of the 19th of December of 2000, it takes as a premise the “professional-technical formation” (article. 428 §4º) of young people from 14 to 24 years old. This investigation leaves from the observation of the daily life of the public schools where I work and the young people there enrolled that are informed and guided to take part in the Program Young Apprentice. The selection process, as well as the origins of the legislation up to reaching the Law of Apprenticeship, the young people which are selected to participate in the Program and which activities they are prepared for the future entry like professionals in the labor market are the principal points of this dissertation. I cannot fail to point out that this research points for the existence of the racial differentiation regarding effectuation of the young persons in the program, indicating the necessity of a special discussion of a politics for the relation of the black youth and the work.