O mercado de emprego e a exclusão social na Cidade de Maputo: caso de pessoas com deficiência visual

Abstract

This paper analyses the employment market and social exclusion in Maputo City: Case of people with visual impairment. From the literature consulted, we found three perspectives of analysis on the subject. The first perspective analyses school qualifications in the access to employment second perspective analyses social networks in access to employment and the third perspective analyses mechanisms of access to employment. perspective analyses mechanisms of access to employment for people with disabilities, with particular emphasis on visual impairment. The study allows us to see that the policies for integration of professionals with professionals with visual impairment are still a challenge that has several contours, and, in practice conformism, relative exclusion and manipulation are verified. That is to say, conformism is characterised by over-protection of the family, sharing assumptions about possibilities and limitations that visually impaired people have and the self-depreciation of skills in a competitive competitive market. Relative social exclusion is characterised by deficiency in the application of mechanisms for inclusion in the labour market and in job competition tests that guarantee equal opportunities in the application process and professional integration into the employment sector. Handling is a mechanism used to respond to the challenges of integrating people with people with visual impairment in the employment sector, it is characterised by hearing requests from people with visual impairment to governmental structures as a way to respond to exclusion in the employment market and the weak implementation of social inclusion policies in labour, the acquisition of employment through influencing the social capital that people with visual impairment and, therefore, professional insertion is done by invitation and by acquisition of special training such as the learning of Braille, other information and communication technologies and communication technologies, overcome limitations or barriers of a professional nature and go through the so-called normal schools. For, this combination constitutes added value in the process of insertion, integration and professional mobility.