Abstract

BENASSI, Evangelina  and  FERNANDEZ, Silvina. ‘Sustaining Politics’ in Interaction: Accompaniment in Childhood and Youth Policies. Temas debates (En línea) [online]. 2023, n.45, suppl.1, pp.15-24. ISSN 1853-984X.

In this publication we present some progress of the Research Projects (PID) (2020-2026) that we have been developing, located in the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of the National University of Rosario. In these projects we analyze the practices of accompaniment in the policies of childhood and youth in the Province of Santa Fe. In this sense, the state social-assistance agencies that carry out the policies of insertion, protection or restitution of rights to the indicated population, they have incorporated the figures of the companions with intensity and regularity to carry out multiple tasks that are considered essential to achieve the programmatic objectives. In this case, and taking into account the particularity of the call, we will focus on pointing out some challenges of childhood and youth policies in the consolidation of democracy and the advancement of the recognition of human rights. We analyze, first of all, the implementation of these policies, reviewing from a critical perspective the bureaucratic overlaps, the division of labor and the conflict that the accompaniment work process entails. In a second moment, we recover from the word of the companions the meanings that they attribute to being the state in the interaction with children and young people. Finally, we present some reflections that help to glimpse how the social problems of this population are registered in state agencies and consequently the interventions that involve addressing them are reflected.

Keywords : accompaniment; childhood and youth policies; bureaucracies.

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