Abstract:
The research aims to survey Brazilian legislation between 1890 and 2020, observing the
basic and mandatory identity documents and verifying how they are identified and described in
the personal papers under the custody of memory institutions. The work has a qualitative
approach because it starts from the observation of human phenomena within a historical and
social complexity: the citizen-state relationship in Brazil between the 20th and 21st centuries
and the keeping of identity documents in the private sphere by social injunction. The research
has also an exploratory approach since it proposes to examine identity documents, explaining
the citizen-state interrelationship under its legal regulation. Thus, we examine the biblio graphy
about the characteristics of personal papers that keep documents by social injunction, especially
identity documents. We present Brazilian legislation about these documents and highlight three
of Brazil's basic and mandatory identity documents between 1890 and 2020: the identity card,
the worker record, and the voter registration card. Finally, we present the search results in the
collections of memory institutions selected by online research to understand how the three
Brazilian citizens' basic and mandatory identity documents are identified and described.
