Abstract
to recognize villages as territories of care and daily resistance to social marginalization. a descriptive study with a qualitative approach based on the methodological framework of ethnography inspired by Interpretative Anthropology. Two-year field research (from the second half of 2015 to the first half of 2017). Participant observation and semi-structured interviews with four privileged interlocutors and a field diary have been used. Data systematization was carried out throughout field work. three categories emerged: Interlocutors talking about their life in villages; Villages as a care device; and Drugs in villages. the results reveal the challenge for health and nursing to recognize the need to understand the contexts of urban life of homeless persons. Nurses need to include cultural elements in their work processes, promoting bonding and understanding the ways of life of homeless persons.
Highlights
Homeless persons are a heterogeneous social group that has been strongly linked to the issue of drug use and crime
In Brazil, there are no official data on the homeless population, there are a variety of studies with different methodologies to estimate the number of homeless persons
We addressed the following categories immersed in the experience between researcher/interlocutor: Privileged interlocutors, in which characteristics of the research participants are presented; Interlocutors talking about their life in villages, in which the community is approached on the street composed of rules, relationships and ways of life of homeless persons; Villages as a care device, in which participants cite the difficulty of accessing formal assistance networks, finding their territories of care in communities on the street; and Drugs in villages, where there are reports on how drugs are part of the ways of life in the village and their habits of collective living in this social space
Summary
Homeless persons are a heterogeneous social group that has been strongly linked to the issue of drug use and crime. Their main characteristics are weakening or inexistence of family ties and regular conventional housing; informal work; and living in degraded urban areas or overnight accommodation units on a temporary basis. They are considered vulnerable groups due to their socioeconomic status, stigma, discrimination and violence (social vulnerability). IPEA computed that, in Brazil, there are 101,854 people in this situation; two fifths (40.1%) live in municipalities with more than 900 thousand inhabitants; more than three quarters (77.02%) live in large cities, with more than 100 thousand inhabitants; and 6,757 homeless persons (6.63%) inhabit the 3,919 municipalities with up to 10,000 inhabitants[3]
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