Martuscelli, P.N. (2019) Onde estão as meninas soldados? Gênero e conflito armado na Colômbia. Cadernos Pagu, 2019 (55). e195519. ISSN 0104-8333
Abstract
This article discusses the concept of victim and its application in the study of child soldiers, considering a global discussion on the employment of girl soldiers in armed conflicts, since this group has a dual invisibility in the categories of women and children. The theoretical approach of this work is the discussion on victims and childhood. To discuss the application of the concept of victim to the situation of child soldiers, I use reports from international organizations, human rights organizations and secondary sources of ethnographic research with child soldiers in African and Asian countries. To illustrate the issue, a brief discussion is presented of the Colombian conflict using reports from human rights organizations and specialists who have interviewed child soldiers in the country. In Colombia, the voluntary enlistment of girls is a form of empowerment and escape from situations of violence, but violence and discrimination accompany them during their period with the armed group and their reintegration into the Colombian society. Thus, although they must have their status as victims recognized, their voices and experiences must be considered throughout the process to ensure their reintegration and rights. In addition, traditional views of victims fail to recognize their strategies of resistance and empowerment.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero – Pagu/Unicamp. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Girl Soldiers; Victims; Colombia; Internal Armed Conflict |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2021 07:09 |
Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2021 04:47 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero - Pagu |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1590/18094449201900550019 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:179089 |