Mercosul e suas estrelinhas nas redes: a exploração sexual comercial de crianças e adolescentes como uma manifestação da questão social

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Alan de Loiola
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/24400
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL; Exploração sexual comercial de crianças e adolescentes; “Questão social”; Mercosul; Commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents; “Social question”; Sex market

The aims of this work are to analyze commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in MERCOSUR full member countries as a manifestation of the “social question”, more specifically describing the characterization of such forms of exploitation in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay; to identify the forms of fight against the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in MERCOSUR and its full member countries; and to analyze the similarities of such exploitation in full member countries. In order to carry out this research, a theoretical-methodological approach of the critical social theory was applied, followed by exploratory-descriptive research of a qualitative type, using bibliographical and documentary survey. The main outcomes of this research are to highlight specificities in each of the analyzed countries: the main occurrence in Argentina is that of trafficking for sexual purposes; Brazil is known globally for encouraging child and adolescent sex tourism; Paraguay features child and adolescent domestic labour; Uruguay is the Latin American country with the highest consumption of pornography. Among the similarities, all these countries feature a sex market as composed by both organized and nonorganized networks, the questions of class, color-race-ethnicity and gender, and their social-historical processes marked by colonialism and dependent, late and peripheral capitalism, as well as facing this manifestation of the “social question” (by themselves and the whole block) toeing the lines of neoliberal thinking. Finally, this study points out some suggestions to face this manifestation of the “social question”, highlighting the need to overcome every form of structural social inequality, making it necessary to build a new societal model to eradicate each and every form of exploitation of the class-that-livesoff-wor