Moradores de rua: porque eles nela permanecem?

Abstract

This study analyses homeless people, specially, why they stay living on street for a long time and have a little chance of changing. It aims combine two different approaches, one focused on structural appearance and another one on individual behavior. The first one proposed is to identify who are these homeless people, striving to discover their origins, more accurately, what social place they come from. In addition, were highlighted some theoretical concepts from which the question comes and could be treated. The study faces aspects relating to the analysis of this segment as affected by social exclusion or the impossibility (created by the action of certain institutions) of reach citizenship, in other words, they will be the stable people that “fell down” socially or people who never reached the citizen positions, of similarity, and, for this reason, have they the social failure as destiny? The second propose is to know about the life style practiced by homeless people, giving attention to aspects related to creation of fixation places, group life, job, among others. In the opportunity, submit the findings reached on some theories that analyse space and daily, especially to understand what represents this life style. The life style and space interweaving is, here, emphasized, because the most relevant particularity to studied people consists in the fact that they try in public places practices that are specific to these as well as the relevant only to private. Finaly, the study takes into account the style that this developed kind of life is understood and also conjured by other ones. The prospect of deviation goes through end to end, it was possible to discuss until what point this life style represents a social deviation. For this to become possible, free interviews were conduced, questionnaires were applied and observations in loco were made of the homeless people from the city of Montes Claros/MG, from the year 2012 to 2014. As this research has qualitative bias, it was not necessary to establish a prior and strictly sample, and was adopted the exhaustion of information method. The study showed homeless people have common origins. Would not be present in this place pleople that were not resulting from class in social disadvantage, members of the subcitizen group. For this reason, the priority downward mobility slaughter them as a destination, reinforcing the permanence on the street. This remainig also is related to the development of a specific way of life, that breaks even if an attempt to still belong to the world, with the usual lifestyle. Thus would exist, along the years, an increasing on “street-living style”, which makes it difficult get out and reiterates the permanecy.