Gómez SLAH, Almanza AAM

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Sexual commercial exploitation is a growing problem that requires urgent attention at a world level, especially when involves unprotected sectors, such as girls and teenagers in social vulnerability. In the community of La Merced in Mexico City, diverse social elements interplay to increase the risk of girls and teenagers to be catch by the networks of sexual commercial exploitation. In the present study, there is a search for understanding in what way a teenager´s life trajectory is affected by gender vulnerability and how is formed a situation of social vulnerability that in a certain moment can allow her incorporation into prostitution. In this case study we get inside the subjectivity of a teenager in risk to know in what way can be developed the capacity of agency to resist the difficulties of daily life created by social vulnerability, and also to know in what way the presence or absence of networks of support and protection promote her capacity of agency. The analysis of results indicate that certain structural conditions can locate girls and teenagers of the community in a position of social vulnerability, and that vulnerability can only be decreased with structural changes that allow the construction of protection networks in the family, the community and the institutional levels, but also the transformation of the passive individual into an active agent.