2025-06-252025-06-252021https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/989This article analyzes the affirmative action policies claimed by black movements in the fight against racism and social inequalities in the 1990s and how this resulted in the drafting, in 2012, of law 12.711, sanctioned by then President Dilma and approved by the national congress (the so-called racial quotas law). This directly connects us to the conditions of access within the Federal Institute of Alagoas, through the places reserved for declaring students from Afro-descendant groups and also the initiatives of one of the work sectors of this institution, which allows conditions of permanence, namely: o student assistance sector. We also bring to the debate, at a historical level, the reflections of authors such as Garcia (2000), Almeida (2019), Kuenzer (2000), Kuenzer; Grabowski (2006) and Pierre Bourdieu (2009), among others, which will be used in order to understand how professional training has progressed, and how it has been focused, since its inception, on the formation of the so-called working class and can, in together with affirmative action policies, establish itself as a public educational institution, which not only inserts people into its training frameworks, but ensures their permanence with quality.ptAções afirmativasEducação profissionalAssistência Estudantil.Trabalho de Conclusão de CursoCIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO