Avaliação do Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil (PETI) em Fortaleza-CE

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Vale, Cristiane Aguiar do
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: www.teses.ufc.br
• Palavras-chave em Português: Trabalho infantil - política governamental - avaliação - Fortaleza (CE); Assistência a menores - política governamental - avaliação - Fortaleza (CE); Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil (Brasil)
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/5974

This study aimed to evaluate the Eradication of Child Labor (PETI) in Fortaleza, and its implications with families contained therein. Child labor in Brazil is a social phenomenon present throughout its history. Is regarded as extremely complex, with multiple ways, strongly influenced, although not restricted by factors related to poverty, inequality and social exclusion, and was included on the public agenda in Brazil from the 1990, with the development of a broad set of initiatives aimed at the prevention and eradication of child labor. In this investigation, it has been like family centrality of children and adolescents who live or have lived the situation of child labor. The research aimed to assess whether the PETI has promoted changes in living conditions of these families, thus contributing to the process of emancipation and social inclusion of the same. The specific objectives and were to analyze the concepts that families have about child labor and on PETI; verify that the families of children and adolescents being inserted in PETI, no return to child labor. The methodological procedures used in the research were to study documentary and field survey. The research comprised quantitative and qualitative nuances. As a methodological strategy, we used the case study. The fieldwork took place between October to December 2009, with responsibility for children and adolescents PETI and a stay of more than three years in the program, during which, presumably, these families should have been emancipated. 106 families were found with this profile. From this universe was extracted a sample of 40%, thereby obtaining an initial number of 43 families registered for the application form. However, only 30 families were located by addresses and phone numbers found on the database of the coordination of PETI. After the application form for collecting data from families, with those responsible for children and adolescents, was calculated from these 30 families, another sample of 40% for the interviews in depth, which account for 17 respondents. The results were analyzed by reference to the interpretive approach, which advocates not only truths, because each interpretation is one possibility among others, where the senses are tied to concrete experience of the subjects and the meanings derived from the analytical efforts of the researcher. Research results showed that part of the overall respondents pointed as responsible for determining child labor not only money but also as a way to keep them away from delinquency, drugs, or as a form of occupation. And yet, for those families who stay for more than three years in the program, promoted this specific changes related to academic performance, interest in studying and improving the family budget, expenditures in helping with basic needs like food, but did not change its state of poverty and could not definitively rule out children and adolescents from early labor.