Molwenes: um estudo sobre as interpretações das crianças que moram na rua, acerca dos estereótipos que sofrem - o caso da Baixa da Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This study focuses on the analysis of understanding the interpretation that children who die on the street have about the stereotypes they suffer. This analytical core emerges from Vygotsky's theoretical thesis, according to which the child is a cultural-historical subject. This theory guided the study, based on its concepts related to the child's interpretive ability. Interpretive sociology, mainly linked to the child, illuminated the central arguments of this study with its presuppositions and observational orientations, whether in the apprehension of spoken language, as in gestures. The qualitative approach was adopted, because it allowed the analysis of the children's interpretations, expanding the possibilities of dwelling on apparently trivial details and situations. It was in this sense that the open interview allowed the chance to hear from the children themselves, their reflections and readings about the stereotypes they suffer in their daily lives. Direct-systematic observations increased the possibilities of not just listening to children, but also experiencing and experiencing some situations related to the children's daily life. The idea that children who die on the street have the ability to read, interpret, and elaborate strategies and ways of dealing with the stereotypes that some actors attribute to them was defended. It has been observed that, in fact, children who die on the street, develop and create their own survival strategies, ending up absorbing reading skills, the kind of people they can approach. They also develop skills on how to deal with people, who respond to them violently, either with insulting words or threats related to aggression. Children see some job opportunities in everyday life on the street, and consider the street as a place where they can do their own thing freely, without the control of adults. Therefore, on the street, they enter or create groups of collaboration and familiarity ties, as a way of guaranteeing intragroup security, especially against the threats of stereotypical actors.