Jovens em situação de rua: Espaço, tempo, negociaç!ões de sentido

Abstract

This is an ethnographic research, conducted over three months, in Natal/RN, with a homeless group (about 11), prevailingly young people between 16 and 18 years old. Two items of research: the determination a) of physical and social environment of streets and b) discursive landscape, built in sense negotiations with other groups, on these youths and their lives. The socio-historical construction of the social condition of street was analyzed, also the space practices of these youths and other groups with whom they interact. The space practices are different for each group, generating conflict among them. These two analyses are inseparable of the understanding of production of meaning by and about these youths, inside social practices that they are involved. Those analyses explain the production of insecurity and hostility feelings among these youths and other groups too.