This article aims at problematizing the process of producing speeches that point and constitute as social vulnerable certain part of child and teenagers' population in Brazil. Theoretical grounding was based on Michel Foucault's formulations, as well as some of Foucault's genealogy tools were assumed here as a methodological investment. We adopted as an analysis corpus the Brazilian constitution, infra-constitutional documents, and legislation related to Social Assistance. Thus, it was sought to understand the trajectory of the social vulnerability speech with highlights to the process of the referred terminology constitution itself . Starting point is related to its link to international rights issues, entering the thematic of health AIDS/HIV, until ingoing the paths of socioeconomic conditions. Finally by identifying, categorizing, and attributing social vulnerability tag to certain individuals, one produces these subjects who constitute a population to be known, controlled, operated, and managed.
Social vulnerability; Children and/or teenagers; Genealogy