O corpo como mercadoria: exploração sexual de adolescentes e vulnerabilidade social das famílias

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Pedersen, Jaina Raqueli
• Orientador(a): Grossi, Patricia Krieger
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social
• Departamento: Faculdade de Serviço Social
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: SERVIÇO SOCIAL; ADOLESCENTES - PESQUISAS; SERVIÇO DE PROTEÇÃO E ATENDIMENTO ESPECIALIZADO A FAMÍLIAS E INDIVÍDUOS; VULNERABILIDADE SOCIAL; EXPLORAÇÃO SEXUAL
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/571

The theme and delimitation of this study comprises the sexual exploitation of adolescents in the municipalities of San Borja and Itaqui/ RS and its relationship with the social vulnerability of families assisted at the Specialized Protection and Assistance to Families and Individuals (PAEFI). The relevance of this research lies in the fact of giving visibility to the particularities of sexual exploration as a theme that needs further debate and appropriation by professionals who work in social policies and in the adolescent´s system for the guarantee of the rights of children and adolescents. The objective is to identify the relationship of sexual exploitation of adolescents with social vulnerability of families and how the PAEFI contributes to confront this phenomenon in order to provide insight to enhance public policies to address this form of violence. In this sense, the study seeks to answer the following problem: What are the dimensions of social vulnerability that adolescents in sexual exploitation are exposed and how these vulnerabilities are recognized and addressed by professionals linked to PAEFI? This is a qualitative research constructed from the critical dialectical framework. Regarding the procedures and techniques we used semi-structured interviews with application forms containing open and closed questions at seven ( 07 ) professionals who work at CREAS in the municipalities of San Borja and Itaqui, as well as for ( 01 ) female teenager, over 14 years of age served by PAEFI. Documentary analysis of professional documents related to the care and monitoring provided to fourteen ( 14 ) adolescent victims of sexual exploitation was also carried out. The free observation also composed the procedures and techniques, making himself present during the conduct of all research. Among the results, it is emphasized that prostitution was the most prevalent form of sexual exploitation attended by PAEFI; and the totality of cases were comprised by female victims. The main situations of social vulnerability present in the everyday life of families refer to illiteracy and low educational level of their parents, unemployment and precarious insertion in the labor market, low pay, poor housing conditions, weakening and breaking of family ties, history of sexual abuse, drug addiction, involvement of adolescents with older men in exchange for money and access to goods and services. One can also notice that the PAEFI lacks investment in human and material infrastructure. Among the challenges presented to the qualification of social policies in regard to combating sexual exploitation of children and adolescents highlights the need for training and qualification of the PAEFI as well as those working in different public services and policies that make the safety net for children and adolescents; incorporation of different forms of sexual exploitation (child prostitution, sex tourism, child pornography, trafficking for sexual exploitation) in the documents and reports used by professionals of PAEFI to characterize the demands of care related to this type of sexual violence; conducting an interagency and intersectoral work that focuses on social vulnerability and social needs that give rise to the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. Based on the results and problematizations developed, this study confirms the thesis that social vulnerability situations experienced by families contribute to the production and reproduction of the relations of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. These situations have several determinations, highlighting gender inequality and class, consumption as a means of social inclusion, the different manifestations of poverty, precariousness in the labor, family breakdown in the face of the reproduction of social and political relations that insufficiently seek answers to the demands and social needs of families. Such determinations do not occur in isolation. On the contrary, they are mutually related reaching a particular way the families of adolescents exposed to sexual exploitation. In other words, they constitute themselves as expressions of the conflict between capital and labor.