Paper short abstract:

It analyses the policies of quotas for people with disability in the labour market. It problematizes the centrality of psi experts and care relations in this policy process and the de-subjectivation nature of biomedical diagnoses, highliting the subjective transformation of people with disability.

Paper long abstract:

This paper aims to analyse the processes of social inclusion policies, which were driven by the promulgation of Law no. 8,213/91 of quotas for people with disabilities in Brazilian business organizations. Focusing on the experiences of people with autism, its main focus is the understanding of the policy's systems of thought, their effectiveness on breaking the barriers people with disabilities confront in this spaces, and the effects of these policies on the construction of people's subjectivities. The ethnography findings of the research that inform this paper allowed to problematize the centrality of psi experts and care relations in the effectiveness of this policy and the de-subjectivation nature of biomedical diagnoses. It was also possible to perceive that the quota policy, despite encountering various resistances and barriers to its implementation, finds as a greater effect the empowering and subjective transformation of people who benefit from it. On the other hand, the research evoked the sanitizing and individualizing rationalities and moralities present in the construction of an unreachable ideal of "worker", propagated in business daily life; the need to rethink the negative character attributed to "care relationships" in the inclusion processes; and the need to take into account the specificities of the diagnosis of autism in the processes of obtaining rights. This paper sheds light on how the various actors and rationalities present in the inclusion processes act in the social construction of new subjects, relationships and social sensibilities in Brazil.