A invenção da infância: o Programa Bolsa Família e as crianças da comunidade de Feira Nova (Orobó) no agreste pernambucano

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand some characteristics of generational changes from the idea of childhood among residents of rural community in rural Pernambuco Feira Nova, located in Orobó, after the implementation of the Bolsa Família Program (PBF). This is because in the field, I noticed that the previous generation (parents and grandparents) to this that today is benefited by the PBF, denies having experienced childhood, since, in the eyes of this previous generation, this idea is currently related to triad: playfulness, schooling and not working. However, as explained below show, such a statement is due to the fact that childhood experienced by this previous generation could not feature this triad, but other brands, mainly related to work. And, as I conclude from the testimonies of the residents themselves, a childhood work is not a childhood. Among other things, because the work away from the school and the playful. This not experienced in childhood, as is known, historically repeated across generations. The PBF, however, is changing this process and contribute to the consolidation of that triad among children today are benefiting from the program. This is because, from a series of conditionalities required by the program, the child ceases to be immersed in the world of work and shall be included in the school world. Consequently, she began to have more free time to study and play. Another contribution is that the BFP is bringing children stay within their inbred family, once in New Fair occurred a kind of informal adoption among families considered poor. For all this, and other reasons that will be better detailed below, this paper will attempt to answer whether these generational changes regarding the notion of childhood are a invention of childhood.