A actividade informal como estratégias de sobrevivencia e base para a criaçao de espaços socias : o caso de Magayigayi no Bairro Unidade 7(Junta) 1987-2002

Abstract

The informal economy, already present in some sectors in the colonial period and in the period of socialist planning, gained new contours and structures during the war and post-war, especially in the period between 1986-1997. This widespread crisis that affected Mozambique during the 1980s led to a weakening of the state. The state deficit in regulation and social management gave rise to the self-organization of population groups that began to produce welfare and control social spaces previously attributed to the State, based on the networks of primary relationships existing in communities (kinship, neighborhood, ethnic groups, professional groups). In this way, we took on the self-organization of the magayigayi at JUNTA who convince and mobilize passengers to use the “plaques 100” in exchange for compensation agreed with the transporters, as a strategy to survive and support their families. ' It was our concern to know how an unemployed person finds a job in the informal market. We take as a hypothesis, that social networks are the ways in which the magayigayi join the JUNTA. We learned this through a preliminary study that we did at JUNTA through semi-structured interviews and participant observation with the magayigayi. According to our interviewees, nobody has worked at JUNTA in recent times except through the help of a neighbor, relative or veteran friend.