A construção social do morador de rua: o controle simbólico da identidade

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the question of the identity of the homeless from the symbolic production and their relation to the social structure, demonstrating how this constitution is embedded in the neoliberal ideologies and processes of control and domination, for example, the transformation of need for choice, called here the "myth of masochistic choice." In this sense, we seek to deconstruct some ideologies that permeate even the constitution of this identity and training of these individuals, as the "invisibility" of the homeless, reducing the problem to a purely economic dimension, expressed in the rating "homeless "policing and the way they are perceived. We also discuss how the hand labor of lumpem became army reserve of factory jobs in a selfdependent work, not even recognized as work. The main issue is to understand how to be "homeless" means much more than the place where you sleep, assuming a location in reference to the work, family and morality of the individual, which ends up being reflected in the academic and policy institutional, among them the hygienist forms, domesticating and pious to notice and pay attention to the homeless.