Agotamiento comunitario en la labor de cuidados de las juventudes frente a los ilegalismos

Abstract

This article problematizes the effects of forms of government that tend to hold communities responsible for the care of youth with respect to the dangers and risks derived from illegal acts in neighborhoods: drug consumption, police violence or confrontations between gangs. The qualitative research with an ethnographic approach was carried out between 2016 and 2020 in an impoverished neighborhood of Buenos Aires. We sought to observe the community and its efforts when generating strategies that would allow “getting kids off the streets”, strategies that were difficult to sustain over time given the precarious economic conditions in which they developed, which exacerbated community exhaustion in the face of the task of caring for youth, which led to deepening their vulnerability.