O/a jovem chamado/a nem nem: produzindo questionamentos a partir de pesquisas sobre juventude e das experiências de jovens pobres

Abstract

The thesis problematized the notions about the so-called nem nem youngsters in researches about youth considering Brazil poor youngsters experience. The socalled nem nem youngster consists in those who neither study, nor work, nor search for employment. We had analyzed the construction of the social issue status for the youngsters called nem nem and its sustentation in three parts: the unknowing of poor youngsters experiences, the glamorization of the phenomena and the constitution of a group of practices to solve it. We had accomplished a lexical analysis of semantic universes about the so-called nem nem youngsters in nineteen (19) documents of the International Work Organization/OIT, using as support the ALCESTE program. Based on an intervention-research that considered the methodic-theoretical contributions of social psychology we had accomplished half-structed interviews and a conversation with fourteen (14) young residents of two shantytowns in Belo Horizonte. We had problematized the notions that consider the thought of nem nem youngsters as vulnerable individuals and as a risk group, when the constructed answers are directed to subjectivity investment of the youngster, contributing to reenact the myth that poor youngsters are a dangerous class, not considering social reproduction of inequality. We had analyzed how micro-relations, the macro-politics, the institutional and cultural aspects contribute to the absence of the youngsters from school and work, which are opposed to the notions that needed investments to solve the built-up problem must come exclusively from individual dimension. As a conclusion, we mention that the nem nem youngster construction figures as a simulation of a youngster which has his/her rights denied dail.