Sociabilizando na casa: Uma análise antropológica das sociabilidades de crianças e adolescentes em situação de acolhimento institucional em tempos de pandemia de Covid-19

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the forms of sociability that children and adolescents in institutional shelter build within this context in times of the Covid-19 pandemic in a shelter institution in the state of Paraíba. The ethnographic research that resulted in this dissertation, was carried out in a Casa de Acolhimento in the Metropolitan Region of João Pessoa, in Paraíba, had as main interlocutors 15 children and adolescents and was carried out throughout the year 2021. The data produced in the field showed that the institution's children and adolescents create forms of sociability in their daily lives – manifested through affectivities and conflicts – and forms of assemblages and tactics of resistance – such as the manipulation of the hierarchical order as transgressions. The field also culminated in the category of “double isolation”, which was conceived from the assumption that social isolation was not new for children and adolescents living in an institutional shelter, since despite what is foreseen in law for the promotion of the right to family and community coexistence, the truth is that children and adolescents, despite being inserted in the city, are isolated from it. Finally, another data revealed in the field was that although the host institution is a place of “absence of the family”, it is present in that space, through the memory, reports and speeches of children and adolescents.