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Ethnographic study on homeless people in a big urban center

2013; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS; Volume: 17; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5935/1415-2762.20130065

2316-9389

Miguir Terezinha Vieccelli Donoso, Marisa Antonini Ribeiro Bastos, Camila Rodrigues de Faria, Aurelino Alves Costa,

Youth, Drugs, and Violence

Homeless people are part of the urban landscape and health professionals cannot be exempted from this process.This study aimed to understand the experience of homeless people in the historical and social context.Ethnography was used as a theoretical reference.Participant observation and open interviews were used for data collection.The saturation criterion was adopted for defining the number of respondents.The population consisted of 17 people.Most had been living on the streets for several years and education levels ranged from elementary school to university education.Initially 21 cultural domains were surveyed, and of these 7 taxonomies emerged.Drug use was considered the cultural theme, because it had been recurrent in various domains and also in 5 taxonomies.It is suggested that further studies on the subject are conducted, because this is about human beings who one day had a structured life.