Jovens pobres da periferia urbana e projetos de vida em tempos de crise: um estudo no condomínio Parque das Águas

Abstract

This study seeks to understand the development process of life projects by poor young people living in the urban periphery. We emphasize the analysis of capital's structural crisis and its implications in the lives of these young people, since they live more acutely the tensions of unemployment imposed by the excessive production of surpluses workforce today. The current social scenario impose excessive requirements of vocational training for the young people for the insertion and ascension the job market and, thus, education acquires a significance and importance in the transition from youth to adulthood, although it doesn’t guarantee employability. The research focus to analizing the subjective conditions encountered by poor young people in the construction of their life projects and the multiple determinations that can induce in formation of a project that’s not his, bur for him, working with young people living in the Condominium Parque das Águas, located in the urban periphery of Juiz de Fora.