Moradores de mugorodes e suas experiências em torno do crime: estudo de caso a partir da baixa da Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The present work analyzes the mechanisms or strategies that the residents of Mugorode commonly known as street children adopt for their social reproduction, focusing on about his experiences around crime in downtown Maputo between the avenues Samora Machel and 25 de Setembro in the following locations: Mugorode of Independence Square, Mugorode de Escuro, Guilhika, Barriers. The main lines of approach related to the themes under study are: the mechanisms or strategies that Mugorode residents use for their survival, bearing in mind that they are somehow seen as the main mentor of assault and robbery in the downtown area. The second approach has to do with the reasons that lead the boys to the street and finally the understanding of criminal typologies and their structuring in the context of Mugorodes residents in downtown Maputo. The labor literature advocates that the strategies that residents of Mugorodes use for their survival are: surveillance and car washing, the execution of small services to residents of the neighborhood, the begging that takes place at traffic lights, the begging that takes place in commercial establishments on Fridays. The reasons that take the boys to the street, have to do with factors of economic political order (war of destabilization, hunger), social and cultural loss of family ties, unemployment. This issue is no longer relevant because we are not at war and there are no natural calamities, but children still continue to abandon their parents to the streets and not only to better understand this issue of unemployment and poverty because there are also children who are in good condition but still going on the street. There are also pressure and attraction factors. Pressure factors such as parental violence, the child's orphanage, abandonment situation, extreme poverty in the family, war and natural calamities, while attraction factors are those that attract the child to the street as the spirit of adventure, the desire to try new ones. environments, the ambition of freedom and the desire for self-esteem, violence, loss of a loved one, alcoholism and drugs. viThe common criminal typologies in the downtown area in the context of homeless people are crimes against property, namely robberies, qualified thefts and simple thefts, vehicle theft, attempted theft and theft of accessories, sale and consumption of drugs, prostitution practices. And as for its structure, the crime is done according to age, skills and also varies from group to group depending on the specification of the crime.(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)