Agência como vulnerabilidade: explicando a ida das crianças para as ruas de Acra

Autores

  • Phil Mizen University of Warwick
  • Yaw Ofosu-Kusi University of Education/Winneba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/lc.v20i41.4259

Palavras-chave:

Crianças de rua, Crianças migrantes, Agência, Vulnerabilidade, Infância

Resumo

O artigo considera a agência das crianças que passaram a viver nas ruas de Acra, Gana. O conceito de agência, pouco examinado, tem sido utilizado nos estudos da infância para enfatizar a capacidade de escolha das crianças. A literatura sobre crianças de rua e trabalhadoras, e da área cognata de estudos sobre migração independente de crianças, tem tratado de questões de agência das crianças significadas pelas referências às teorias de escolha racional ou à força normativa da infância. Ambas as abordagens não respondem a importantes questões. Para superar estas omissões nos baseamos em argumentos só- cio-realistas e, em particular, na ênfase que colocam na vulnerabilidade como base da agência.

Biografia do Autor

  • Phil Mizen, University of Warwick

    Professor do Departamento de Sociologia da University of Warwick desde 2001, depois de ter trabalhado, desde 1993, na Escola de Saúde e Estudos Sociais da mesma universidade.  

  • Yaw Ofosu-Kusi, University of Education/Winneba
    Professor de Estudos Sociais na University of Education, Winneba, Gana. Atualmente dirige o Office of International Affairs da mesma universidade.

     

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09.05.2014

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Dossiê 2014 - Estudos da Infância

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Agência como vulnerabilidade: explicando a ida das crianças para as ruas de Acra. (2014). Linhas Crí­ticas, 20(41), 81-101. https://doi.org/10.26512/lc.v20i41.4259

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