Trabajo infantil en el contexto de la pandemia del Covid-19 : una Mirada ecológica alrededor de las Historias de Vida de 3 niños trabajadores en la calle, en el sector noroeste de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

This research on child labor is based on the life stories of 3 working children and adolescents on the street, from the city of Guayaquil. Research that analyzes the ecological environment of working children and adolescents in the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, and reveals the realities that these children live in the environments where they develop. This work has as its main reference the Ecological Theory of Bronfenbrenner, from which the different areas that affect children who perform child labor in the streets can be better explained, since this theory allows us to analyze each of the systems (micro, meso, exo, macro, chrono), with which the children selected for this research relate, taking into account the role of the State and their families. Work has been done from a qualitative research approach, contrasting the data obtained through interviews, genograms, ecomaps and life lines, with the contributions of the selected theoretical and conceptual framework. Obtaining as one of the results that, without a doubt, the most visible axis of development of this problem is that of the conditions of extreme poverty that lead to it. Where it is valid to mention that as structural problems that sustain poverty are inequities, levels of access to education and the quality of it, unemployment rates and little investment in public policies that guarantee the rights of highly vulnerable children.