(In)visibilities of violence in the production of care for homeless people

Abstract

This study takes the manifestations of violence in a Psychosocial Care Center for Alcohol and Other Drugs in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, as analyzers of the production of care for homeless people who use this service. It used a qualitative approach in a cartographic perspective, following clues which appeared in the monitoring of the service for a semester, recorded in a cartographic diary, and in four monthly meetings with the service care team to discuss scenes of violence. Results point to a shift in the view of violence as a natural unfolding of vulnerability and drug use, making visible other elements involved in its production, such as the structural and institutional racism experienced by these people. They reinforce the need for permanent education strategies which take violence and racism in health services as raw material for the training of health workers.