DESTITUTED MOTHERHOOD: Reproductive (In)Justice and Loss of Family Power
This dissertation aims to explore the application of the legal institute of family power removal (FPD) as a complex social phenomenon in which the state and the justice system remove children from their families of origin, justified by their supposed inability to protect them. Based on a territorialized analysis and focused on the mothers and their motherhood who are the objects of these actions, a quantitative survey will be carried out of the DPF Proceedings in a Child and Youth Court located in the eastern region of the capital of São Paulo, between the years 2018 and 2021. In addition to outlining the prevalent profile of these destitute mothers, 4 case files will be selected for a qualitative study, with the aim of detailing the procedural nature of the action, identifying its main actors and the justifications for applying the DPF. The hypothesis guiding the work is that certain mothers have been deprived of their rights and the lack of statistical data makes this phenomenon invisible, making it necessary to interpret it from the perspective of the debate on Reproductive Justice and intersectional markers.