Resumo de The Surviving Strategies In Order To Get Money And Accessibility To Consumer Goods Of 104 Boarder Yo

The surviving strategies in order to get money and accessibility toconsumer goods of 104 boarder youngsters at an institution named FEBEMin Ribeirão Preto.Historically, youngsters facing a situation of social and individualrisk have committed the law-breaking act, practiced infant industry andworked on the streets as an alternative to provide resources for theirown subsistence or for their families. The main emphasis of theassistance policies has been the inclusion of these youngsters in thelabor market, as a means of fostering their ?social inclusion?.However, there has been criticism of these assistance patterns and ofthe view of the society as a whole considering labor to be the bestalternative for these people. Thus, the proposal of the present paperwas to contribute toward this debate, creating a general portrait andconducting a survey into the surviving strategies in order to get moneyand accessibility to consumer goods of 104 boarder youngsters at aninstitution named FEBEM in Ribeirão Preto from June to August, 2000.The data gathering included a framed schedule for the execution ofindividual interviews and a field work agenda for the recording of theactivities that were executed during the study. Among the results thatwere met we could notice that the vast majority of the youngsters livesin the suburbs of Ribeirão Preto and studied up to the 5th or 6th gradeof elementary school. Most of the youngsters were put in that boardinginstitution for having committed robbery and murder, being thepredominant age group, for the first boarding, between 16-17 years old.For the matter of surviving strategies, we could notice that all of the104 youngsters conducted some kind of activity in order to make somemoney and have access to consumer goods in their lives. However, wecould notice a difference in the variety and amount of activities thatwere conducted by the youngsters if we consider the boarding at FEBEM,since most of them practiced, before being boarders at FEBEM, IllegalActivities, especially the Infant Industry and the Law-Breaking act andLegal Activities associated with Illegal ones, whereas after beingboarders at the institution, the Illegal Activities were predominantlyreported, pointing out the Law-Breaking Act. We could sense that thelongest-lasting activities were the Law-Breaking Act and the InfantIndustry and the age group for the beginning of the Illegal Activitieswas from 9 to 13 years old and, for the Legal Activities, 14 years old.Among the causes for the discontinuance of the activities, we couldnotice that the dismissal, the kind of activity performed and themonetary worth were the most frequent ones in the Infant Industry,Juvenile Industry and in the Training Work. Being sent to FEBEM wasalso mentioned as another reason for the discontinuance of theseactivities and also of the Law-Breaking Act. The Law-Breaking Act wasthe activity that provided the largest amount of money, which was spentespecially on clothes and for entertainment. The vast majority ofyoungsters interviewed mentioned that, after being boarders for thelast time, they would like to execute some kind of Legal Activity. Wealso found youngsters who couldn?t define what they would like to doafter leaving the institution and youngsters who said they wouldn?tlike to execute any kind of activity, because their goal was to go backto school and/or for fearing death risk Thus, we could conclude thatthese youngsters seek for several surviving alternatives, most of thembeing illegal, and we also noticed the need for obtaining greaterautonomy to live their youth and be supported to have access to LegalActivities of their personal concern. We could also see that not allyoungsters would like to work and, the ones who mentioned such interestwould like to accomplish different activities from the ones alreadyendured, that is, activities that were not characterized asunderemployment or could not provide social mobility.

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