Processo de integração e estratégias de protecção dos moradores dos Mugorode, na baixa da Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present research analyzes the integration process and protection strategies of “residents of Mugorodes ”from downtown Maputo. In the literature, this group of people is referred to as street children, street children or street dweller, in this work I categorize them as “residents of Mugorode ”. From the analyzed literature on that subject, I identified two approaches. The first argues that street children are socially excluded individuals. The second argues that street children are individuals who have a social organization. The first approach makes it possible to understand the social exclusion of street children, but it remains to be understood how how they are socially organized. The second allows us to understand the organization social situation among street children, but it remains to be understood the process of integration and protection of “Mugorode residents” in the street context. In order to understand the integration process and protection strategies of “residents of Mugorodes ”, I carried out an ethnographic work on Mugorodes. Based on the observations, formal and informal conversations, I maintain that the “residents of Mugorodes” are organized and norms, similarly to what Manjate (2014) showed, in such a way, they have a process of integration that happens when individuals arrive on the street, once integrated, they develop a set of protection strategies such as the use of pseudonyms, clean walking and live in the Mugorodes. These strategies develop among the “residents of Mugorodes” as well as members of the family or the family of origin is part. With the same they they protect themselves from policemen, friends and people who are not part of the street context. This work allows us to understand that the “residents of Mugorode” have strategies integration and protection, as well as maintaining relations with their family members from provenance, unlike studies that look at us as excluded and unprotected. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)