Own world: the institutional care for children and adolescents in uruguay

• Autores: Cecilia Montes Maldonado
• Directores de la Tesis: Encarna Bodelón (dir. tes.), Estibaliz De Miguel (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2020
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: María Teresa Picontó Novales (presid.), Noelia Igareda (secret.), Marina Medan (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Estudios de Género: Culturas, Sociedades y Políticas por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; la Universidad de Barcelona; la Universidad de Girona; la Universidad de Vic-Universidad Central de Catalunya y la Universidad Rovira i Virgili
• Materias:
  • Sociología
    • Sociología experimental
      • Psicología social
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• Resumen

  • This doctoral thesis, in the form of a compendium of articles, is part of the Inter-University Gender Studies Programme: Cultures, Societies and Policies. The research problem is located in the children and adolescents social studies, specifically, in the field of state administration through the protection and socio-criminal systems directed towards children in Uruguay. The objective is to provide an analysis of the social practices of care and meanings associated with care that occur in the responses through the judicial protection measures for children and adolescents and deprivation of liberty for adolescents in Uruguay. A qualitative approach is adopted, and a unique case study is carried out in two state institutions: Instituto de la Niñez y Adolescencia (INAU) and Instituto Nacional de Inclusión Social Adolescente (INISA). The case study takes an ethnographic, descriptive and in-depth approach. The corpus of the thesis is integrated by 34 in-depth interviews with institutional agents, documents, observations and records in a field diary. Analyses of institutional functioning and results show the mobile character of the state and the importance of understanding it from the institutional agents that produce it in their daily practices. The conclusions highlight the challenges of undertaking qualitative research in state institutions that manage the lives of children and adolescents and how the various barriers to access shape the production of knowledge. The notion of care acquires multiple and heterogeneous meanings that vary depending on the individual characteristics of the institutional agents and also on the institutional conditions. The prevailing ethics of care in each institution show the instability and conflict within the category. Lastly, I reflected on the importance of the use of the notion of care as a category of analysis, with critical potential and of great use in guiding in another way the current operation of judicial protection measures for children and adolescents and deprivation of liberty for adolescents. The challenge for the future involves providing the necessary resources to the systems for executing measures in this area. Implement a deinstitutionalization and life promotion project in family settings and eradicate deprivation of liberty for adolescents.