Eu não sei me virar na rua, não: uma análise da (des)proteção social de adolescentes em situação de rua a partir do SAICA Acolhimento Inicial

Abstract

The object of study of this work is the full protection of homeless adolescents through reception at the Institutional Reception Service for Children and Adolescents – SAICA Acolhimento Inicial, in the city of São Paulo. We sought to understand the specificity of the service, the social work offered to the adolescents in foster care and their experiences, before and during the period of foster care. The research was based on the Marxist tradition from a perspective of totality, considering the historicity and contradictions present in the care of homeless adolescents, problematizing normative advances and the realization or not of the rights of these subjects, in a peculiar situation of development. To this end, a review of literature and legal regulations was carried out, and empirical research was carried out using quantitative data and in particular qualitative research through interviews with workers and life stories narrated by teenagers. The research recognizes adolescent homelessness as an expression of social inequality and structural racism in our society and that institutional care is also a perverse response from the State to this expression of the social issue. The adolescents' narratives revealed violations of rights and institutional violence experienced throughout their lives. The research also highlights the fragility of the Unified Social Assistance System – SUAS in materializing its social protection, in the city of São Paulo, in a context permeated by exploitation and precarious work