The Government, the President, and the Police: Politics According to Children Living in a Squatted House

Abstract

The implementation of the neoliberal regime in our country meant an unprecedented advance of capital over labour in today’s Argentina. This resulted in wealth concentrating in few hands, and the consequent impoverishment of the life of the working class in general (Fernández Álvarez, 2015), and of childhood in particular (Carli, 2009). The reason for this is “a growing lack of protection for families, undermining their capacities to provide basic conditions of development for girls, boys and adolescents” (CEPAL & UNICEF, 2005, p. 27)...