“They Are Everywhere”: Reflections and Notes from the Movement of People Living on the Streets

Abstract

Living on the streets is living in circulation, “inhabiting all spaces” without, however, to belong at any of them. The individuals who experience the space of the streets reconfigure the notions of home and show the gap and the fragility of the institutions. This article aims to make notes on the centrality of circulation in the lives of homeless people, especially the way of earning life and reproducing. We have as analytical key brief ethnographic notes supported by field work still in development in Volta Redonda, a city located in the south of the State of Rio de Janeiro. This gives us first impressions about the circular and staying from an average city. Finally, we understand that the forms of assistance and access to health equipment and treatments provide minimum conditions for a fragmented daily life. They also point to an indirect form of abandonment of this unwanted minority and also evidence that these subjects "are everywhere” - the paradox of the visible and invisible treated by the studies of the street situation.