Children’s rights and gender in Mexico

Paradoxical implications within the framework of the neoliberal state

Abstract

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mexico City and Tijuana bet ween 2003 and 2013, this study analyzes the articulations between the policy of care for “street children”, the democratic transformations and the neoliberal economic policies deployed during the first decade of the year 2000 in Mexico. The reflection proposes, on the one hand, to look into how the contents of the CRC (Convention on the Rights of the Child) were articulated with the notion of the State and the public policies of the time. On the other hand, we will answer the question of how the discursive and legislative resources that refer to children’s rights, are appropriated and translated by the different actors working with children and adolescents in street situations.