IN THE RAZOR'S EDGE: BETWEEN THE GUARANTEE OF RIGHTS AND THE SOCIAL HYGIENE IN THE POLICIES OF ASSISTANCE TO THE POPULATION IN THE STREET SITUATION
population in street situation; public policies;
The street population represents one of the most perverse expressions of the social question, and constitutes itself as a phenomenon that interweaves economic, political and social factors in its determination. It is a segment historically invisible by the State that from its political organization in the middle of the years 2000 gained legal advances in relation to the guarantee of their rights. These rights are materialized, albeit initially and with weaknesses, mainly by the Social Assistance policy. Considering that such a policy goes against the neoliberal offensive that has strongly impacted Brazil, it is important to analyze how a social policy aimed at the most marginalized in the country has been operating. Thus, the present study intends to analyze the social assistance to the population in the street situation and the access of this segment to social public policies in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. This research is anchored in dialectical historical materialism and was organized from two complementary studies: conversation wheels with the professionals of the social assistance services to assist the population in the street situation and interviews with militants of the National Movement of the Population of Street in Rio Grande do Norte. After transcription of the audios, a content analysis was performed, the data being organized into six categories: ways of life and characterization of the street population in the RN; social assistance services for the street population; social hygiene in SUAS; service network and their articulations; the MNPR and the political articulation of social assistance users; changes in the Brazilian political scenario and its impacts on SUAS and the street population. It is hoped to construct theoretical elements that can contribute to subsidize the technical intervention in the public social policies directed to the attendance of the population in the street situation.