Abstract
The study aims to discuss living conditions and emancipatory health promotion based on descriptive evidence from the reports of the Pastoral Land Commission, references on the struggle for access to land in southeastern Pará (Northern Brazil), led by landless migrants and articulated with the peasant movement. As a result, the question arose: to what extent did access to land promote improvements in the living conditions of landless migrants in southeastern Pará? It is a qualitative study, based on the findings expressed in documents and reports of the Pastoral Land Commission in the light of post-colonial theories and public health. It presents a critical discussion about the neo-extractive capitalist development model and the modern world-system, manufacturer of exclusion and subordination, proposing epistemological and ontological alternatives, in articulation with the emancipatory social struggles in the fields and in the cities. There is evidence in the reports of the Pastoral Land Commission and in the official data of the Colonization and Agrarian Reform Institute that access to land in the analyzed region has changed the living and health conditions of thousands of landless people in a context of high conflicts and violence in the countryside.
life conditions; emancipatory health promotion; Pará