Limites e possibilidades: uma tentativa de aproximação antropológica com a realidade de adolescentes em situação de exploração sexual na Cidade de Manaus

Abstract

This thesis brings an attempt to approach the reality of adolescents in situations of sexual exploitation in the city of Manaus. The hypothesis that supports his analysis is that the safety and the exploitation networks of children and adolescents run of own logic and different operation, and the exploitation network is much closer to the reality of adolescents. From experiences in the field, using ethnography and participant observation in institutions that care to adolescents and in places where sexual exploitation occurs in the streets of Manaus, this research combines psychology and anthropology, where prevail feminist theoretical basis. From this support, use two sets of categories to reflections on the context of adolescents that reveal the agency as a crosscutting theme throughout the process. The first group of categories is composed of sexuality, gender, violence and power and the second group involves childhood / adolescence, consent, network and territory. Attempting to approach also allows a reading that shows the native categories "enxerimento," "rede do babado" and "Rede Legal" with representations and stories of young people in the forefront. This study also seeks to highlight maps that describe the places where sexual exploitation occurs, the logic of functioning of spaces and young girls; and the attendance numbers performed in some institutions of the network of care for cases of sexual violence. From these procedures, it shows some reflections that can serve as a local contribution to think about limits and possibilities beyond the shaft victim / aggressor, on the equipments that materializing public policies in the field of confronting sexual violence against children and adolescents in the city of Manaus.