Abstract

PERES, Rodrigo Sanches. Highway wanderers: a study on the motivations and the characteristic injunctions of wandering. PsicoUSF [online]. 2001, vol.6, n.1, pp. 67-75. ISSN 1413-8271.

The presence of wanderers in highways is conspicuous. The aim of the present paper is to inquiry into the events that lead to abandon the social life referentials and analyse the means by which the characteristic injunctions affect these people. Fifteen highway wanderers subjects were taken up for this survey who were at a social institution in São Carlos. We recorded semi-structured interviews which were later transcribed and submitted to a content analysis. Several factors pointed out as motivators of the nomadism were classified in two plans: psychological and social-economic. The instability and isolation are peculiar to such a condition, and life is considered precarious and security something beyond reach.

Keywords : Highway wanderers; Alcoholism; Unemployment; Affective familiar conflicts.

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