Title

Times, circulations and affections: ethnography of institutional care for children and adolescents

Abstract

The research aims at the anthropological analysis of the policies and practices of institutional care of children and adolescents through a research agenda that articulates three axes of problematization: the ways of relating to time in/of institutional care, the participation of institutions in the dynamics of children's circulation and the daily emotions and affections that make up this period of residence in an institution. In theoretical and methodological terms, this is an ethnographic research in dialogue with the fields of anthropology of childhood and the technologies of governance of family and childhood. An ethnography is being carried out in an institutional foster care service with participation in daily life and documentary research in the institutional archive. Observations will also be made in concentrated hearings (instance of decision on the continuity or suspension of the foster care measure and in which family members and children / adolescents participate), visits and observation in different units in their different modalities (halfway house, shelter and home), as well as semi-structured interviews with technicians and managers working in institutional foster care in the greater Porto Alegre.

Financing

CNPq schoolarship