Entre a utopia da lei e as imposições da vida: um estudo sobre como crianças e adolescentes de uma comunidade na periferia de Campina Grande/PB usufruem direitos previstos no ECA.

Abstract

This research seeks to understand the process of effecting practices that refer us to the rights that are understood as necessary to preserve the human dignity of the child and adolescent population in Brazil. In this line of thinking, our research challenges the effectiveness of the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) in the context of State activity, as well as social activity. Given the existence of legal propositions, from a sociological perspective, we seek to understand the implementation of public policies and protectionist actions for children and adolescents,in order to recognize the existence of common elements and that are favored in the community's experience and in the utopia established by the statute. Mapping values that are included in the ECA, the research emphasis surrounds the rights to education, culture, sports and leisure, which are supposed to be promoted by the State and by society in general. Thus, the question that guides our research is: how and to what extent do these rights reach the minors of a community on the periphery? Through the use of a qualitative methodology and the theoretical tools of the Social Sciences, we seek to capture the nuances of the relationship between public policies and the ways of life of children and adolescents, which from the structuring theory allows us to reach the effectiveness of the Legal provisions, based on the correlation between community and state legislation. The empirical data collection was performed through participatory observation practice in the Jardim Borborema II community, in the Três Irmãs neighborhood, located on the outskirts of the city of Campina Grande in Paraíba. Faced with an inert role of the State in the development of community activities, the rights provided for in the ECA remain in the ideals of the State, while community action is the only instrument for the consolidation of these rights.