The emergence and institutionalization of children and/or teenagers in social vulnerability at Brazil

Abstract

 This article was elaborated with the objective of diagnosing the emergence of a specific layer of Brazilian people named as children and or teenagers in social vulnerability and the implementation of institutions intended to their protection, care and support. To make it possible, it was used as theoretical basis Michel Foucalt’s examples, taking as methodology some tools from Foucaultian genealogy. It was used as analysis corpus the official laws implemented in the country, the infraconstitutional documents, up until the materials which regulate the core of Social and Educational Service in Open Environment (ASEMA) of Pelotas (RS), institutions that have functioned as research field. Analyzing this documental mass it’s possible to realize that the existence of children and/or teenagers in social vulnerability is produced by selfsame discursive formations that constitutes these individual as social vulnerable, having as effect the implementation of those institutions intended to their own protections and care. This way, it’s possible to observe that such happenings acts as biopolitics, used to control some slice of population and to manage the risks created by it, seeking some kind of homeostasis or even a global balance of individuals and populations where they are inserted.