ABSTRACT
In most Brazilian cities, the street population is not taken into account in social and structural urban mobility policies. In several situations, these individuals are precluded from exercising one of the main foundations of civil and human rights: the universal right to come and go, the right to freely access the city’s public spaces. What is reported in this chapter is the result of a covenant between a public social assistance unit called Centro Pop and a social project of Fluminense Federal University (UFF), which offers tourist experiences for its poor students and workers. In this initiative, a group of homeless – users of Centro Pop – had the opportunity between November 2017 and April 2018 to visit some of the tourist attractions of the cities of Niterói and Rio de Janeiro. During the planning of this experience, in meetings with social workers, we took into consideration the feelings and the previous experiences of the group and noticed difficulties and limits in constructing a tour itinerary. Through ethnographic research, this article reflects on the social relations identified through the Social Tourism project and the visible and invisible limits present in the way of life of homeless people.
