Migração e situações de rua: O uso do álcool nas ruas de Brasília

This article intends, through a field research, to reconstruct the life trajectory of individuals that migrated to Brasilia in the past three years and are now homeless. It highlights, in the narratives of their daily lives, the use of alcohol as a socializing and disruptive factor in their trajectories within a set of typical vulnerabilities of this population. The nature of the migratory process, in the individual and social senses, is analyzed as a way of contextualizing the debate regarding the life trajectory of the migrant individual. The process of formation, construction, and\udmaintenance of a social identity and biography is based on the idea of socialization, which refers to the conditions in which an individual forms and is formed by the different and continuous social references around them. The interviews conducted based on the listening of life stories (biographical method) imply the construction of a set of theoretical and analytical development that discusses the issue of the importance of establishing and maintaining social and emotional ties and the role of alcohol in the daily lives of these individuals