Curso de vida : a transversalidade da violência na configuração da situação de rua

Abstract

Some estimates by the Institute for Applied Economic Research point to a significant increase in the number of homeless people in Brazil. In this study, we used the life course theory that seeks to analyze how a family, economic, social event, among others experienced by the subjects, modifies their probabilities of producing other events in their existence. Based on this theoretical framework, we sought to structure the dissertation in order to answer the following question: what are the possible relationships established between the street trajectory and trajectories related to violence and crime? Therefore, the following objectives are presented: 1) To identify the configuration processes of the street trajectory and criminal trajectory of individuals; 2) Build the typology of the processes that led people to the street situation and evaluate how the crime appears in this context as an act practiced by the person; 3) Demonstrate the violence exercised against this group, either as an event suffered by it, or as a label given by representatives of the State. Qualitative research was used to achieve the proposed objectives. Primary data were collected through individual semi-structured interviews with 10 homeless people, in person in the municipality of Contagem. Data analysis and interpretation were based on Laurence Bardin's content analysis method. In view of the results obtained by the research, it is possible to verify that the configuration process of the street situation contains reflections of a structure permeated by markers of social inequality such as race, gender and class, which leads to a racial division of spaces and affects mainly the life of the black and poor population through racist, sexist and apophobic crossings. Consequently, the character of the transversality of violence that makes up the life trajectories of those who use public spaces for housing and survival is revealed.