Abstract

CIORDIA, Carolina  and  VILLALTA, Carla. Judicial and administrative processes about children’s adoption: confrontation of diferent senses in the configuration of a “proper family environment”. Etnográfica [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.3, pp.435-460. ISSN 0873-6561.

In this article we analyze the tensions between agents in the field of institutions for the protection of children when the goal is to provide children a “proper family environment” and for that they resort to adoption. From the analysis of cases studied in our fieldwork in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (Argentina), we discuss the forms of the trajectories of children towards adoption and the social interactions between institutional agents and the birth families, because focusing on the areas of negotiation and or open confrontation in them it is possible to identify the tactics deployed by the families of the children in order to contest the scope of intervention and to build for themselves a morally acceptable place. This perspective, we understand, may complexify the analysis of the dynamics of state intervention on children and their families.

Keywords : adoption; family; judicial and administrative bodies; tactics.

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