Abstract

ANDRADE, Simei Santos  and  SANTOS, Raquel Amorim dos. Human rights and child labor in the Amazon: the logic of predatory capital and child subversion in northern Brazil. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2021, vol.11, n.1, pp.24-37.  Epub June 01, 2021. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v11.n1.2.

The objective of this study is to analyze the logic of predatory capital for a generational group of children, such as riverside, indigenous, caboclas, quilombolas, fishermen, beach workers, peasants, forest peoples, landless, settlers, small farmers, immigrants, colonists and urban subversion this capitalist logic. The applied methodology was derived through a qualitative approach, based on bibliographic and documentary research. Based on data that promote or study the centrality of governmental and non-governmental organizations, notably UNICEF, IMAZON, IBGE, ILO, Agência Brasil, Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice / Federal Highway Police, Special Secretariat for Social Security and Labor, with a focus on the Amazon in Paraguay. The main results show that attending to the basic needs of children and the protection and social security policies for their full development even if there is a great gap between what or the State, through public policies and legislation says, what they are kids? We live in different geographical areas of the Amazon. The study's conclusions show that children, as well as the exploration of their work that leads to a dignified life, jumping, going to school, education, health and a quality bedroom, also subvert capitalist logic and through their children's cultures struggle and resist the barbarism of the "civilized" world.

Keywords : Human rights; child labor; children of the Amazon; Paraense Amazon.

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