Opressão estrutural e responsabilização individual: trajetórias de interrupção do convívio familiar na comarca de Chapecó/Santa Catarina (2020-2021)

Abstract

The justice has been provoked to provide answers to the various expressions of human rights violations, including the issues experienced by families whose children are removed from the conviviality due to measures applied to face situations of violence, lack of protection and vulnerabilities. Considering this context, this study aims to analyze how the intersection of the social markers of sex/gender, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic, among others, impact on the violations of rights that caused the family’s life removal of parents and children involved in processes of dismissal of family power in progress in Judicial Power of Chapecó-SC. Seeking these objectives, were used as research sources the bibliographical survey, the documental analysis of the processes that started in 2020 and in wich resulted in foster care of the children, and interviews with members of family groups involved in these processes. The work is part of the Research Line "Social Knowledge, Processes and Practices", it is a qualitative study and uses the feminist and decolonial perspective in the theoretical elaboration and interpretation of the results, which are analyzed using the key of intersectionality, aiming to offer innovative and interdisciplinary contributions to the development of the subject. From the analysis of the results, the conclusion is that State interventions, institutionalized by capitalist and colonial bias, reproduce social inequalities and structural oppressions - such as racism, capacitism and patriarchy – attributing to the private sphere of the families the responsibility for sustenance and care, while exempting the State from investing in services and structures to support care and other collective needs, not only for children and adolescents, but also for parents, mainly for mothers. It was also found that this historical and reiterated context of socially naturalized patriarchal and colonial relationships end up influencing multiple forms of violence against women, from those experienced in the context of domestic and family relationships, to those reflected in violence in public spaces, at work, and even in the restriction in their possibilities of facing social inequalities. Due to the systematic, structural and naturalized way in which patriarchy, racism, economic oppression and moral judgments around gender roles (wife, mother) are expressed, women (poor and racialized) become more vulnerable to violence from all forms: symbolic, moral, institutional, social, sexual, psychological, physical, which increases the difficulties to regain contact with the children, extending the time of separation from their children. In addiction, it was found that women who experience the interruption of living with their children have faced - under the oppression of differents expressions of social inequalities and with reduced State support - most of the institutional requirements, cumulatively assuming the care and support of their children, with limited or no support from male parents/spouses/relatives and resisting patriarchal and colonial violence in the private and structural sphere.