Minority at Stake in times of Dictatorship: the PCI on Minors (Brazil, 1975-1976)

Resumen

In recent years, the term child and adolescent deployed for others, depending on the focus and researched period, other connotations realize about these individuals or groups of these, terms such as "abandoned", "at risk", or for the name "minor ". To situate the lower within a larger context, as a period called the military dictatorship (1964-1985), these individuals were subjected to a series of state actions, both by the National Well-being of Minors Foundation (FUNABEM), as the constitution a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI), called CPI Minor Abandoned or just the Minor CPI. Our focus is to show what it is, and how was the CPI in repression period. Thus the CPI investigating the ills that society and the repressive organs imposed to minors and especially ways of how to "save" it is here in this article, try to transpose the context of this CPI, with his first impressions in society, particularly in the studies made to assist the unfolding of this committee. The time was favorable for consistent attitudes towards the suppression of human rights, and the CPI annoyance regarding this situation draws attention to the "less concerned". Between 1975 and 1976, the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (1975), aimed to "investigate the problem of children and less needy in Brazil." In trying to capture the profile of the compositions of this character in official documents, make us reflect on the relevance of this issue, which involves a very special category: the "lesser".