Vidas em abrigo: a metáfora do “lixo social” e as implicações acerca do acolhimento institucional como medida protetiva para a infância, adolescência e juventude em situação de direitos violados em Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais

Abstract

The research presented in this thesis seek to understand the constitution of the metaphor of "social garbage", and the implications surrounding the Institutional Shelter as protective measure for Childhood, Adolescence and Youth in situations of violated rights. In preparing this study, was sought to draw a picture of the institutional policy, and also investigate what impact this type of host can generate in those who are under the protection of the institutions studied here. In the field research, the locus investigated involved four host institutions of the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Through a qualitative approach, the method of study was a techné, a very unique way of listening to the stories, in this case, specifically the stories of children, adolescents and youth of the institutions portrayed here. The work of participant observation followed the procedure of a general observation of conditions of each institution and, gradually, approach with the most significant stories of each context. The interview-conversation and ethnographic record, ensured the account of the experience of how it is to live in institutions, and which subjectivity is constructed inside. In analyzing the data it warns that institutions become a black box in which deposit a generation of children and teens delivered to State control. Forming an unbelieving group, and presaging your social misfit, youth fighting against time, hasty, because when they complete seventeen and eleven months of age, does not have to turn, where to go, and were not prepared for the competition at the labor market in the contemporary world. In this sense, this research proposes to warn about the formation of a variety of "social garbage" and, at the same time, claim to guarantee that children, adolescents and young people can truly be themselves as subjects of rights