Disposable childhoods, disposable children: essay on a removal of houses and lives in the city of São Paulo

Abstract

The goal of this article is to discuss the childhood in the recent process of housing removal ocurred in the Jardim Humaitá favela in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The location of the study was chosen based upon the phenomena of conflitct between the economic and real state markets and its interest over the region. This is a matter still not far explored by the social sciences studies over the childhood and its relations with the urban scenario. From observations of the process of propriety reintegration of the public land made by the city government it was possible to identify the ways of fight and survival of these drifting children in conditions of struggle. The metodology: observations of that community, documental sources such as daily news shows and photographs and visitations to the favela in the months of Frebruary and April of 2019. We were able to to observe at close that not only habitations are removed, but also the children in those places, configuring a Removable Childhood. Concluding that not many lives carry true value in the eyes of the perportrators who committed this acts, and that it is on course a project of extermination of this population, made primarely of black and poor people, we see that not only adults are involved in this process, but also children that are at risk and fight, beeing agents capable of actions that diverge from this adverse scenario reacreating it in their own way.