DRUG TRAFFICKING AND THE MARGINALIZATION OF ADOLESCENTS: BOUNDARIES BETWEEN BECOMING OR BEING MARGINALIZED

Abstract

The present research, the result of a thesis, focuses on the adolescent life trajectory, specifically 14 boys and 01 girl, in compliance with socio-educational measures, residing in the interior of São Paulo-SP. These are socially marginalized adolescents who question the stereotypes imposed on them by associating life trajectories, education, drug trafficking and work. The general objective is to understand what meanings they attribute to trafficking and their commitment to school. The methodology used articulated the Oral History of Life and the Thematic Oral History, highlighting fragments of the adolescents' stories that interfere in the choices - or lack of them - throughout life. The narrated life stories were transcribed in full, textualized and, finally, transcreated, according to the methodological decision. As the main result and discussion there is the scope that drug trafficking is understood as informal work, in the view of adolescents in conflict with the law, reported in this research.