Childhoods' Path in Amazonas in context of social distancing

Abstract

The various types of violence are part of the daily lives of children from the lower classes who live in Amazonas state (Brazil), in which concentrates the largest indigenous population in the country, in addition to immigrants from Haiti and more recently those from Venezuela, whose children live scattered on the streets of Manaus, the state capital. In this paper, we highlight the conditions of inequality that violates the  rights of children to experience their childhood in Amazonas and that, with social isolation demanded by the Pandemic caused by Covid-19, were intensified causing deaths and greater exposure to risks of all orders in a social fabric that was destroyed and with the exclusion mechanisms amplified and shattered by the adopted economic model. The work makes an intersectional analysis, problematizing the forms of oppression in which children are submitted, considering the social markers they carry, seeking to understand the strategies used by them to produce the ways of living and surviving in the context of imposed social isolation.