The surviving strategies in order to get money and accessibility to consumer goods of 104 boarder youngsters at an institution named FEBEM in Ribeirão Preto. / Compreendendo as estratégias de sobrevivência de jovens antes e depois da internação na FEBEM de Ribeirão Preto.

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2002

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Historically, youngsters facing a situation of social and individual risk have committed the law-breaking act, practiced infant industry and worked on the streets as an alternative to provide resources for their own subsistence or for their families. The main emphasis of the assistance policies has been the inclusion of these youngsters in the labor market, as a means of fostering their “social inclusion”. However, there has been criticism of these assistance patterns and of the view of the society as a whole considering labor to be the best alternative for these people. Thus, the proposal of the present paper was to contribute toward this debate, creating a general portrait and conducting a survey into the surviving strategies in order to get money and accessibility to consumer goods of 104 boarder youngsters at an institution named FEBEM in Ribeirão Preto from June to August, 2000. The data gathering included a framed schedule for the execution of individual interviews and a field work agenda for the recording of the activities that were executed during the study. Among the results that were met we could notice that the vast majority of the youngsters lives in the suburbs of Ribeirão Preto and studied up to the 5th or 6th grade of elementary school. Most of the youngsters were put in that boarding institution for having committed robbery and murder, being the predominant age group, for the first boarding, between 16-17 years old. For the matter of surviving strategies, we could notice that all of the 104 youngsters conducted some kind of activity in order to make some money and have access to consumer goods in their lives. However, we could notice a difference in the variety and amount of activities that were conducted by the youngsters if we consider the boarding at FEBEM, since most of them practiced, before being boarders at FEBEM, Illegal Activities, especially the Infant Industry and the Law-Breaking Act and Legal Activities associated with Illegal ones, whereas after being boarders at the institution, the Illegal Activities were predominantly reported, pointing out the Law-Breaking Act. We could sense that the longest-lasting activities were the Law-Breaking Act and the Infant Industry and the age group for the beginning of the Illegal Activities was from 9 to 13 years old and, for the Legal Activities, 14 years old. Among the causes for the discontinuance of the activities, we could notice that the dismissal, the kind of activity performed and the monetary worth were the most frequent ones in the Infant Industry, Juvenile Industry and in the Training Work. Being sent to FEBEM was also mentioned as another reason for the discontinuance of these activities and also of the Law-Breaking Act. The Law-Breaking Act was the activity that provided the largest amount of money, which was spent especially on clothes and for entertainment. The vast majority of youngsters interviewed mentioned that, after being boarders for the last time, they would like to execute some kind of Legal Activity. We also found youngsters who couldn’t define what they would like to do after leaving the institution and youngsters who said they wouldn’t like to execute any kind of activity, because their goal was to go back to school and/or for fearing death risk Thus, we could conclude that these youngsters seek for several surviving alternatives, most of them being illegal, and we also noticed the need for obtaining greater autonomy to live their youth and be supported to have access to Legal Activities of their personal concern. We could also see that not all youngsters would like to work and, the ones who mentioned such interest would like to accomplish different activities from the ones already endured, that is, activities that were not characterized as underemployment or could not provide social mobility.

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surviving strategies trabalho jovens youngsters febem estratégias de sobrevivência

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