Abstract

LARREA, Natalia. Dramas and dilemmas in interventions on children “at risk” in a state agency for rights protection. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2021, n.53, pp.119-136.  Epub May 06, 2021. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i53.8641.

This article is part of ethnographic research that seeks to contribute to the understanding of the modalities of protection of children considered “at risk”. Based on fieldwork conducted in a state agency for the protection and restitution of children’s rights, it analyzes the modalities of intervention on this population and their families, in a mid-sized locality of the province of Buenos Aires. The paper focuses on the dilemmatic scenarios that shape the translation of the language of rights into concrete interventions carried out by state agents. It is argued that the meanings assigned to child protection, mainly associated to notions such as consensus, voluntariness and family responsibility, are put under strain in concrete and situated practice by resignifying the language of rights in the interaction between families and the State.

Keywords : Children’s rights; State agency; Protection of rights; State; Families.

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