A reinvenção de si no mundo da rua: Trajetos e narrativas de quem nela vive

The article describes and analyses the lifestyle of people living in the streets, starting from two stories used as ethnographic references, through participant and itinerant observations in the cities of Fortaleza and Lisbon. The narratives about life in the “world of the streets”, point out the multiplicity, diversity, and temporality as marks of the lives of contemporary urban nomads. The diverse ways of living observed in this study point out the reinvention of themselves and the street’s world through the creation of new material and existential territories. Reinvention that surpasses the exclusive frontier of need and image victimization and blaming that are often used as poles of representation of homeless in two surveyed cities.