The present research aims to understand how students experience university life at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE - Serra Talhada Campus) in the context of university housing and student assistance policies, considering an intersectional perspective. To this end, we rely on Cida Bento (2022), who discusses the consequences suffered by countries colonized by Europeans during the colonial expansion process - such as Brazil. These countries were dominated by a Eurocentric worldview, which is fundamentally relevant for understanding current student assistance policies. This historical process was termed "coloniality" by Aníbal Quijano (2005), in which cultures and subjectivities were destroyed and considered inferior. Thus, racism was shaped in conjunction with capitalism. In this sense, it provoked the control of knowledge, subjectivities, and bodies, which Michel Foucault (1999) calls biopolitics. This mode of thinking still prevails in colonized countries and is reflected in common-sense thinking. In this context, the university is also affected, as it is deeply integrated and inseparable from the social environment in which it is located, thus reflecting the organization and behavior of society (CHAUÍ, 2001). In Brazil, higher education has an elitist and exclusionary character towards historically marginalized people, even with policies that demonstrate an apparent solution. Based on this premise, the present study seeks to investigate how the subjectivity of students benefited by the UFRPE's student housing policy at the Serra Talhada campus is constituted and what the effects of the program are on their lives and relationship with knowledge. To this end, a qualitative research will be conducted through questionnaires and narrative interviews with students in residence. The research will be carried out with subjects who experience the university and are directly affected by the discussion. We believe that the research will favor the long-term understanding of affirmative action policies implemented at UFRPE, especially regarding university housing, which, according to our survey, is a topic still little studied.