This paper aims to discuss the eviction of the squatters of the Jacutinga community, a workers'
settlement located in the municipality of Porto Nacional, Tocantins, in the face of the
repossession of the Jacutinga and Santa Isabel Farms, obtained by the heirs of Jorge Washington
Coelho de Souza, as well as to analyze the impact of the repossession on the lives of the
residents of the Jacutinga community. The theoretical approach of the work is based on the
authors Gohn (2003), Silva (2008), Ferreira (1994) and Tonucci (2022), working from the
perspective of the struggle for land, social movements, agrarian reform and private ownership
of land. Understanding that property is a citizen's right, but when it comes to rural property, it
has to be productive and fulfill its social function. The methodology follows the approach of
qualitative, social and empirical research, seeking to typify the variety of representations of
people in their experiential world (BAUER; GASKELL, 2008), but above all, it seeks to know
how people relate to their everyday world. This is a qualitative study, concerned with the reality
that cannot be quantified, i.e. the universe of meanings, motivations, aspirations, beliefs, values
and attitudes (MINAYO, 2014), in addition to the use of documentary research. Therefore,
according to the residents of the community, one of the reasons they lost their possessions was
the lack of interest from the government. The lack of land documentation was also one of the
relevant points in the squatters' loss of possession, and a crucial point for the landowner to
obtain repossession, as she had all the property documentation regularized. In this way, the
squatters were forced to leave without any compensation, because according to the owner's
defense, the law does not support these causes, especially since the owner claims to have been
violently expelled by the squatters in 1989, and since then, the legal struggle for possession of
this land has been waged.
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