Abstract

LLOBET, Valeria. Las políticas sociales para la infancia vulnerable. Algunas reflexiones desde la Psicología. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2006, vol.4, n.1, pp.149-176. ISSN 1692-715X.

This article is a reflection on policies that promote the broadening of rights for the at-risk child-youth population, from a perspective that views the internal workings of institutions as the space in which policy postulates become reality. To this extent, we propose here an analytical mode which includes some aspects that are rarely considered when thinking about the specifics of policies for children. For this mode we are using a theoretical approach which articulates the problems of representation and care-taking in order to problematize practices whose objective is the concretization of citizenship for children. The specific nature of policies for children is such that in every case their implementation articulates significations and representations that configure the children who they serve as (at risk, social, psychological) cases, and they deal with issues of inequality and asymmetry as natural and objective. Therefore, these aspects are not questioned as obstacles to achieving objectives for the broadening of rights. This analysis was developed based upon the Argentine experience in this field, specifically that in the City of Buenos Aires at the end of the 1990s. It aims to contribute to the debate relating to the specific obstacles which are confronted by all public policy that is based on the international Convention on the Rights of the Child for advancing the securing of the rights of children in situations of extreme vulnerability.

Keywords : Social Policy; Representation; Citizenship; Recognition.

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