Banca de DEFESA: BEATRIZ PINHEIRO DE MELO

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STUDENT : BEATRIZ PINHEIRO DE MELO
DATE: 27/07/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência e Sala do GEPET - CCHLA/UFRN
TITLE:

The meanings of work for adolescents exploited by drug trafficking

KEY WORDS:

Historical-cultural psychology; Senses and Meanings od work; Exploitation of child labor; drug traffic;

PAGES: 192
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Understood as global reality, child labor exploitation shows a fact that accompanies the development of societies and the historical world of work, not being childish by the current stage of capitalism that benefits from that workforce for its constant reproduction. In this scenario, drug trafficking configures a space of constant work place for children and adolescents, employed in the sale, transport and even production of drugs that supply the national and world market. The objective of this research is to analyze the meanings of work for adolescents, in socio-educational measures, exploiters for drug trafficking. For this, was used semi-structured interviews, later transcribed in full, with 9 adolescents in socio-educational measures with some history related to drug trafficking. Data analysis was performed using the method of “meaning cores”. Four cores were built: 1. Traffic as work: Contradictions of being a worker; 2. “Sex, drugs and violence”: child labor, adultization and consumerism; 3. Violence as a mediator of conflicts at work and outside of it; 4. The desire to leave (or not) drug trafficking and future plans: Working for money vs. working for pleasure. In a context of denial of rights, positive attributes are built in the consciousness of young people even being fought by the capitalist state. At the same time that trafficking is fought by society, it contributes enormously to the reproduction of capital, even if the State seeks to eliminate it. And this attempt by the system also arrives in a contradictory way in the conscience of these young people, who are involved in the trafficking for survive, but it also can leaves than to death.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1033183 - FELLIPE COELHO LIMA
Interna - 1720819 - ILANA LEMOS DE PAIVA
Externa à Instituição - MARIA DE FÁTIMA PEREIRA ALBERTO - UFPB