População de rua em Juiz de Fora: uma reflexão a partir da questão social

Abstract

Who are those who live on the cities' streets expressing a huge poverty? At which place and which historic process moment it's possible situated this phenomena origin? How to relate the social question genesis to the formation of this phenomena? The street population characterization, in the big cities, in the word and in Brazil, keep relevant similiarities with those found in mediun cities like Juiz de Fora? To investigate these questionings, constitued this study central purpose. This dissertation is organized into three charpters. The first one presents the debate about the social question genesis and fundamental categories for the street population understanting. The second presents concepts and thermologies used and develop a reflection, in general terms, about the street population in Brazil. The third chapter points the research difficulties with the street population and presents, to the readers, the Juiz de Fora municipality and the living street population of this city, looking for to stabilish links with the theoric content and the national characterization of the used phenomena. At last, we got to the final considerations comfirming some hypotesis and elaborating news questioning to be better detailed on the future studies.