Mototaxistas: Os impactos financeiros causados pela pandemia do Covid-19 na cidade de Laranjal do Jari-AP.

Abstract

This search aims to reflect and understand the work of motorcycle taxi drivers at Laranjal do Jari during the Covid-19 pandemic, a simultaneously risky and existential activity that generates meaning, experience and subjectivity. Due to the context, the motorcycle taxi driver working class during the critical period was greatly affected, and the impact is still invaluable, but directly and/or indirectly affecting their health and finances, changing social dynamics, and not just because of these serious health effects, but also for its interference in economic, political and health perspectives.The approach that guides is the perspective of exploratory research, bibliographical surveys as procedures, case studies and their results presented in a qualitative way, and are essentially motivated by the curiosity of the researcher to speculate on the discoveries addressed. Field research is characterized as a case study insofar as it involves a deeper point of a given subject, in order to develop a broad elaboration and understanding of the subject (Kauark et al., 2010). The entity chosen for the data collection is the Associação de Mototaxitas de Laranjal do Jari - UNIVALE, based on semi-structured interviews, the category lives with the possible impact of the pandemic and harms its work activities.