ELES NÃO MORAM, SE ESCONDEM, NÃO DORMEM, VIRAM A NOITE: VIVÊNCIAS ESPACIAIS DE HOMENS QUE TRANSFORMAM A RUA EM CASA NA CIDADE DE PONTA GROSSA, PARANÁ

Abstract

The present work has as objective to gather space in the practice of daily actions of the people that transform the street in house in the city of Ponta Grossa, Paraná. The phenomenon of the population "in situation" of street is located in large growing in the large and medium-sized cities of the world. In Ponta Grossa, Paraná, according to data from Creas POP of the city, between 120 and 140 people transforming the street at home in the city. The survey data were seen through fieldwork on the streets, squares and parks of city and in the Ministério Melhor Viver, the Christian institution that shelter people in situations of social vulnerability, mainly who are transforming the street at home. Eight semi-structured interviews were carried out with this population at the streets and in the institution. Through these interviews it was possible to categorize the main spatialities mentioned and analyze how they contribute to daily survival practices. The aid spatialities, the street, the spatiality of the family houses, the work and the spatialities of drugs were the ones that appeared the most in the interviews. The spaces for the street population are sometimes performative. Through these spaces, the population that transforms the street at home in the city of Ponta Grossa-PR survives in the relationship with the care institutions, other people 'in situation' of street, with the authorities of public security, the conflicting family relations, with drug trafficking and alcoholism. Moreover, these bodies are read as abject and liable to death, or rather, 'should' die.