Paper short abstract:

The paper analyses the tactics of young women care-leavers in relation to welfare policies and health. These are the results of ethnography carried out between 2010 and 2013 in Brazil, in which the more traditional conception of tactics (as cunning / survival) is tensioned by the prospect of the invention of Roy Wagner (2010).

Paper long abstract:

The analysis is based on ethnography, carried out between 2010 and 2013 in the south-Brazil, on deinstitutionalization of young women care leavers. The experiences of these young women might be thought from the gaps left by the protection policies for children and adolescents after the institutional shutdown. In this perspective, the focus of analysis would fall on the tactics they undertake to circumvent the difficulties imposed by heeding, especially when they reach adulthood. However, much as the deinstitutionalization experiences of these young women are marked by «a kind of continuous improvisation» this dynamic seems to mean more than a simple "survival tactic" amid a context of instability. In this sense, I would like to propose another analytic key, which allows to understand the practices of these young people not just as simple survival tactics, as gimmicks front of the gaps left by the protection policies, but as tactics that allow constantly invent life, even in such emergency conditions where it would seem impossible. More than reiterate the idea that these young women are not expecting such policies, and therefore they mobilize to build their own integration, i sought think that such tactics are based on the analytical key of the invention (Wagner, 2010). One such way for the invention of new possibilities of life is related to the ways in which young women live the experience of motherhood and caring for children, given the tactics they establish with the care and health policies, the seeking the rights of children, sometimes subverting attempts to biopolitical controls.