"São tentativas de tirar eles da situação de rua" : um estudo sobre os sentidos atribuídos às ações voltadas à pessoa rualizada no âmbito do SUAS.

Abstract

The reality of homeless people is not a recent phenomenon and is one of the most extreme and devastating examples of poverty and social exclusion in the world. Scholars in the area indicate that it is not known for sure when there is such a reality, in which people begin to transform places in their home, their source of sustenance, their space for interpersonal exchanges, self-care and many other uses. Thus, reflecting on the experiences of homeless people is also (re)thinking about the (other many) ways of being and living in the world. Living in the condition of homeless, that is, being/living/staying on the streets, first, is one of the (often fatal) results of inequalities that permeate cities. The research proposed here is characterized as qualitative and had as main objective to know what the actions/projects/programs are developed by the workers in the “Sistema Único de Assistência Social (SUAS)” (Unified System of Social Assistance) in relation to the demands of the homeless population in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul, south of Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, in the online modality, through a free virtual meeting tool with workers who work directly with the demands of the homeless population in this city. For data analysis, the proposal of Mary Jane Spink (1994, 2010, 2013) and collaborators was used, which is based on the field of social psychology, more specifically in social constructionism, to evidence the production of meanings of workers in SUAS. As results we have the description of the actions and projects developed by two public services that make up SUAS in this city and that work directly with people in street situation. In addition, it was possible to identify and analyze the production of meanings attributed both to the reality of people living in the street and to the services used in the face of these demands. We observed in the narratives the lack of human resources, material resources, professional training, and continuing education to add to the work already developed and, in addition, to contribute in many other ways in the action against a population that continues to be invisible in our city. Without the intention of producing conclusions, the present study considers that the actions of workers who rely on preparation, training and continuing education is paramount in practices focused on the demands of the homeless population. However, we note the lack of such incentive and point out that this ends up being a factor that generates in/excluding practices. Finally, we point out about the difficulties encountered by the workers interviewed in relation to the complexity and frequent challenges in daily work. Thus, these questions refer to the need for the network and services to provide resources to foster learning, in the format of permanent education, for their workers, encouraging the search for studies and regulations that present updated data and effective, sensitive, and humanizing strategies, in front of a population that continues surviving on the margins.