“…This perspective focuses on technologies of power read as forms of intervention intended to guide, direct, orient, train and regulate persons, populations and issues (Fonseca et al 2016). These are deployed in a range of actions that target children, youth and families, including public policies aimed at the protection of children, their care and their upbringing; the tensions generated in the administrative and bureaucratic devices intended to restore the rights of children and adolescents, and their effects on the realisation of citizenship (Schuch 2009;Fonseca & Schuch 2009;Fonseca 2009;2011a;2011b;Ribeiro 2011;Grinberg 2016;Llobet 2011;Barna 2014a;2014b;Magistris 2016;Larrea 2021;Aydos 2016;Sabarots 2017;Rifiotis 2019).…”