Entre a casa e a rua: as tramas existenciais de uma instituição para o acolhimento de pessoas em situação de rua.

Abstract

The National Policy for the Homeless Population, instituted in Brazil in 2009, gave rise to the Specialized Reference Center for the Homeless Population – POP Center. The institution was designed to be a house temporarily destined for people who, coming from multiple urban contexts, accept to be accompanied by the typical services of Social Assistance provided by the government. Public Policy aims to organize the social life of those assisted by it in a physical space, for a certain period of time, so that they can transition from the street situation to the conventional standard of living authorized by society, through a process of transformation that adopted in its interim a provisional role – that of “user” – to be played within the geographical limits of the Center. This dissertation refers to the research that took place in one of the units of the institution Centro POP, in the city of Campina Grande-PB. In this sense, the POP Center and its representations, as a unit of analysis, allow, from a spatial perspective, the understanding of the peculiar configurations that are established by Public Policy, which constitute, in the institution thought to be a house, its own forms of dwell; and it allows, from its margins, to make society and its unfinished business more understandable. The relationships woven into the liminalities and intersections between the public and the private make up the institution's existential plots.