THE PARENTAL MATCH: An analysis of active search and government technologies in difficult-to-place adoptions in the city of Maceió/AL.
Childhood and youth; adoption; late adoptions, government technologies; state practices.
In the research presented, I propose to reflect on how certain government technologies are activated and mediated to promote so-called difficult-to-place adoptions. As a rule, we are talking about children who do not belong to the priority profile of qualified would-be parents. They are children over seven years old, with some type of disability or illness, in addition to groups of siblings and black people.
For a better reflection on the topic, I turn my attention to the active
search device, established by the National Council of Justice and chosen
as one of the possible means to increase the chances of successful
adoptions in these cases considered difficult. Through ethnographic
research, carried out at the 28th Children's and Youth Court of Maceió,
I propose to monitor not only the mechanisms mobilized to promote
active search, but also the procedural dynamics itself, in an analysis of
the legal processes of able-bodied children/adolescents adoption and
members of profiles considered difficult. Based on the data obtained so
far, I seek to tension some practices of the professionals responsible for
promoting adoption, taking into account not only their own
subjectivities, but also the power dynamics that involve the cases
analyzed.