Un análisis etnográfico sobre las personas en situación de calle y los sentidos de hogar

Abstract

Starting from an ethnographic work carried with street people in the city of Madrid, Spain, this study attempts to analyze the sense of "home" that derives from the experiences of inhabiting a public space. The concept of "home" is not universal, on the contrary, in our fieldwork we traced central variables in the constitution of multiple meanings of home - genre, residential biography etc. The prolonged socialization process of the situation of street people is other key factor: home and street are concepts that interact, the changes that have an effect on one term, affect the other as well. In addition, discourses and practices of these subjects allow to problematise fundamental dimensions in the constitution of diverse senses around "home": home as an objective space, as social space, as identity space, as an "ideal "space, as a memory location, or as ideological space.