Relaciones entre políticas públicas de adolescencia y experiencias en la construcción de ciudadanía para la localidad séptima de Bosa, Bogotá, Distrito Capital. 2015 – 2016.

Abstract

The present study seeks to analyze the processes of construction of citizenship from the possible relationships between public policies of adolescence and particular experiences in the local context of Bosa. For this, it was necessary to collect information on public policies in force for adolescence that would allow a framework to evaluate their design. At the same time, qualitative information was collected that allowed an approximation to the social representation of adolescence in the territorial, socioeconomic, cultural and environmental context of its human development. From there, a confrontation of the current norms versus the social expression of the adolescent population was carried out. This being the case, this study shows how success in the construction of citizenship based on rights is subordinated to the contexts of vulnerability, where the public policies formulated do not manage to adapt adequately to the complexity of the needs. On the other hand, the transitory nature granted at the time of adolescence serves as an excuse to avoid its standardization and place it in a vacuum at the end of childhood and the beginning of youth. Under the current political-economic model, social protection based on public policies has focused and fractioned human development at times in the continuum of the life course, which has made it possible to point out the abandonment of stages such as adolescence, whose care and self-designation determine their contribution to the construction of human capital.