Abstract
Research on policies directed to children and adolescents is a field of analysis that requires constant assessments of its practical effects and structuring ideologies. Considering the care with the identity of the hosted subjects, as established in the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent (ECA), an analysis was developed on the process of identity metamorphosis of an adolescent who, for more than eight years, has resided in a Unidade de Acolhimento Institucional (Unit of Institutional Hosting). To report the research, we began with a brief review of the history of host models in Brazil, a socio-historical analysis of adolescence and the description of the identity-metamorphosis-emancipation conception. The research participant, José Miguel, narrated his life history bringing fundamental elements for the reflection on the roles of institutional actors, on the demand for affection and on social and institutional resistance in the experience of a sexuality in a “transitional process”.
Keywords:
Identity; Narrative; Institutional hosting; Adolescence; Gender