<strong>Abandoned Children and the Brazilian social welfare state: from marginalized children to street urchins</strong> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v30i1.3208

Abstract

The implementation of the so-called rule of Social Welfare in Brazil, has fed directly into their policies on social assistance. That, as a necessary adaptation of its political structures and social welfare from an exclusionary process of capitalist development, for these moments, seriously questioned by the political forces of communist countries and pressure from groups and parties of the left wanting by national socialist revolutions. Case, which in Brazil in a first moment takes to the formulation of the concept of minor marginalized as a way to better camouflage the authoritarian practices of the Brazilian military dictatorship, but that in a second time if radicalizes, in default of the military regime, putting out - the creation of a new term of the boys and girls on the streets, while a new category of analysis and criticism of political and social reality. Expression that once consolidated in reality assitance Brazilian has been exported to the world, as a category of analysis that has become a basic concept reference to the new Legal Doctrine of the Childhood Protection Total.