De quem estamos falando? Indígenas residentes no Rio de Janeiro segundo o Censo Demográfico de 2010

Abstract

The studies on indigenous living in cities gained momentum with the incorporation of the “indigenous” category as an option to answer the question of color or race of Brazilian demographic censuses. The results of the last censuses have shown a significant presence of indigenous people living in cities throughout most of the country. However, there are few analyzes dedicated to the subject using census data. The present article focuses on the Indians registered in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 2010. It seeks to characterize this population based on the variables of the research in its sociodemographic and spatial dimensions. Besides the Indians living in many Brazilian cities, the results of our analysis show that, in the case of Rio de Janeiro, they inhabit large spaces of these cities and are distributed by various social strata. Almost all the districts of Rio de Janeiro had Indians. Despite their wide distribution, these figures show that they were a very rarefied population. The constructed analytical profiles show that the Census would be capturing in the indigenous category a very heterogeneous group of individuals.