Minha casa não é minha, e nem é meu este lugar: memória e narrativas de resiliência de crianças em instituições de acolhimento

Abstract

Due to some characteristics of the host institutions as well as certain policies that the Brazilian government has taken historically, it is not always possible to guarantee the child's right to know events of his/her life story or tell it in other words, beyond what is narrated on the institution’s quotidian. The lack or precariousness of records on personal and family history of the children may affect the construction of autobiographical memory, the formation of children's identity and their ability to overcome the suffering related to their family and institutional history. These considerations make us question what stories to tell, how to tell them and what is left to tell in contexts of hosting. How the stories told to children and by children can favor resilience processes, strengthening those who are welcomed to deal with life's adversities?It is in order to answer this question that this research was developed from the extension projectLiga de Cores do Núcleo Cearense de Estudos e Pesquisa sobre a Criança (League of Colors of Studies and Research on Child of the State of Ceará). This extension project consisted in the implementation of the institutional intervention Fazendo a Minha História (Making My History). This methodology was created with the purpose of promoting means of expression, so that the welcomed can get in touch with their past, record their life stories and build projects for the future.