HOMELESS PEOPLE NATIONAL MOVEMENT: THE COMPLEX STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS

Authors

  • Andrea Vieira Zanella
  • Aline Amaral Sicari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n3p1058-1079

Keywords:

homeless people, National Movement of Homeless People, Social movement, rights

Abstract

The research aimed to investigate the tensions and paradoxes that
characterize the struggle of the Homeless People National Movement
(MNPR, the acronym in Portuguese). Its focus was a unit of the movement,
located in an average city in the south of Brazil. Data analyzed were gathered
during the participation in MNPR meetings and formal and informal
conversations with 25 homeless people, or people with a homelessness
experience. Dialogical interaction analysis was the methodology of choice.
Five paradoxes were identified: 1) the condition of discomfort, concurrent
with recognizing the importance of the place occupied by the movement’s
leadership; 2) the tension between being on the streets and being in the
institutionalized spaces of struggle; 3) the contradiction between singular
life projects and the need to fight for change concerning all; 4) the tension,
visibility and invisibility of homeless people; 5) the contradiction between
living on the streets and being able/willing to get out of this condition, with
the risk of not being recognized by peers and not taking part in the struggle.
Despite the paradoxes, the research highlights the importance of MNPR
concerning the fight for social, political and human rights to homeless
people.

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Published

2021-10-22

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