Procesos de mercantilización y cosificación de las personas niñas en el contexto neoliberal: explotación sexual y pornografía infantil, análisis de caso

Abstract

This article is the result of the recovery, analysis and systematization of an intervention process
developed based on the methodology of social case work and the biographical method
of qualitative research, in its life history category. It has been designed from an exhibition
that recovers the basic method of individualized attention, ordering by methodological
phases the social intervention against the phenomenon of trafficking in persons for the
purpose of sexual exploitation.
This text raises, based on the uniqueness of the story, the effects of structural and domestic
violence experienced by a preschool-age girl, who was a victim of sexual exploitation
and child pornography from three months of age to five years; as well as the deployment of
functions, techniques and tools of social intervention, aimed at contributing to the transformation
of the trajectory of the girl and her family.
The article begins by showing the conditions that go through the lives of children and
adolescents in our country. This reveals highly precarious, unequal and violent contexts
that are somatized in the intimate world: the family. Subsequently, the methodological
strategies, the theoretical approaches of Human Rights, Rights of children and adolescents,
as well as the systemic approach, all mainstreamed in the case approach, are proposed.
Its analysis is described from the situation-problem identifying the rights that were
violated at the individual and family level, revealing the intervention process deployed by
social work, in the restitution and transformation of trajectory.
To conclude, we reflect on the institutional device and the disciplinary involvement in the
face of complex contemporary problems such as the commodification and objectification of
girls in the neoliberal context in the face of the rights discourse of this population group.