(In)visibilidade urbana: uma investigação sobre a exclusão e a vulnerabilidade da população em situação de rua em João Pessoa/PB

Abstract

This study investigates how necropolitics acts as a barrier to the homeless population’s (PSR) access to social rights, considering the exclusion and vulnerability they endure. The urgency to discuss the social exclusion impacting the PSR is justified by its 211% growth between 2013 and 2023, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the dismantling of social policies. This exploratory and qualitative research, conducted in João Pessoa, PB, reveals the precarious access to health, income, and housing for this population. Using semi-structured questionnaires and theoretical analysis based on the concepts of necropolitics, biopolitics, homo sacer, and precarious lives, the study highlights the institutional marginalization practices affecting this group. Research limitations include the nomadic nature of the PSR and the lack of updated official data. It concludes that necropolitics perpetuates exclusion and vulnerability, reducing these individuals to a state of "living dead" in urban areas.