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Paiva, Verónica
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spa
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112 p.
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Cobertura
7593303
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (autonomus city)
1997-2009
Abstract
This thesis approaches the problematic of the individuals who live in the streets in the city of Buenos Aires as well as how the topic begins to have a major public interest at the end of the 1990s.
Since 1997, social programs which have the homeless as beneficiaries have been created. In this sense, it was utterly important to reconstruct the diagnosis made by the policy-makers of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (GCBA) who were in charge of the design of the Sin Techo program, the first one created since the return of democracy in 1983.
Particular emphasis is set on how and why the street became a “spend the night” option for a homeless person. In this sense, there are several structural variables—such as the transformation of the labor market, the worsening of household conditions and the increase of poverty and indigence levels in the nineties—that partly explain the increase of persons living in the streets. Accordingly, other variables—linked with the individual’s subjectivity—have been born in mind in order to be able to explain the arrival to the street of these individuals.
Therefore, the aim is to combine two dimensions in order to understand why the street becomes a firm possibility of where to live. On the one hand, the retreat of institutions that integrated society with the labor market and education with social mobility; on the other, the impossibility of the individuals to construct social networks that help them to confront an adverse situation in a better way.
This thesis also takes into account the view of the policy-makers and of the homeless people that adventure themselves to one of the inns fostered by the GCBA: the Bepo Ghezzi inn. The interviews as well as the participant observation revealed some of the tensions that exist between the policy-makers and the homeless people and the inadequacies that the inn presents opposite to the own characteristics of the population who approach the Bepo Ghezzi night after night.
Since 1997, social programs which have the homeless as beneficiaries have been created. In this sense, it was utterly important to reconstruct the diagnosis made by the policy-makers of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (GCBA) who were in charge of the design of the Sin Techo program, the first one created since the return of democracy in 1983.
Particular emphasis is set on how and why the street became a “spend the night” option for a homeless person. In this sense, there are several structural variables—such as the transformation of the labor market, the worsening of household conditions and the increase of poverty and indigence levels in the nineties—that partly explain the increase of persons living in the streets. Accordingly, other variables—linked with the individual’s subjectivity—have been born in mind in order to be able to explain the arrival to the street of these individuals.
Therefore, the aim is to combine two dimensions in order to understand why the street becomes a firm possibility of where to live. On the one hand, the retreat of institutions that integrated society with the labor market and education with social mobility; on the other, the impossibility of the individuals to construct social networks that help them to confront an adverse situation in a better way.
This thesis also takes into account the view of the policy-makers and of the homeless people that adventure themselves to one of the inns fostered by the GCBA: the Bepo Ghezzi inn. The interviews as well as the participant observation revealed some of the tensions that exist between the policy-makers and the homeless people and the inadequacies that the inn presents opposite to the own characteristics of the population who approach the Bepo Ghezzi night after night.
Título obtenido
Magister de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Políticas Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales