Quando a casa é a marquise, o albergue, a rua: discursos e políticas sociais para pessoas em situação de rua em Belo Horizonte

Abstract

Based on the verification that homeless people is a social issue that needs to be problematized, this work seeks to understand how the discourses that support social policies for the homeless people in the city of Belo Horizonte are articulated. It is considered here the homeless people as a relatively cohesive social group and minority in terms of institutionally recognized political power. From a qualitative research that made use of semi-structured interviews associated with participant observation and systematic recording in a field diary, relevant subsidies to approach the subject were obtained; this material was analyzed through discourse analysis. e main categories of analysis focused on homeless people and on its intentions, the reasons that led them to live on the streets, in the social and spatial control, and repression to which they are daily subjected.