Shelter Homes and the Intimate and Family Narratives of LGBTQIAP+ people

• Grant number: 25/08030-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: October 28, 2025
• End date: October 27, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques
• Grantee: Jesser Rodolfo de Oliveira Ramos
• Supervisor: Siobhan Magee
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/14628-8 - Compositions to move on: making politics, spaces and memories in LGBTQIA+ Shelters Home., BP.DR

Abstract

This Research Internship Grant (BEPE) project employs ethnographic methodologies to explore how personal and familial narratives of LGBTQIAP+ people shape the ways of territorialisation and policy-making within Shelter environments. The doctoral research encompasses a comparative analysis of three Shelter Homes in different regions of Brazil, each characterized by operational protocols and institutional frameworks. The centrality of these personal and familial narratives in the research is based on two fundamental premises. First, these narratives demonstrate how shelter spaces are constituted by the diverse forms of subjectivation of sheltered people. Second, they shed light on the mechanisms through which shelter policies are conceptualised and operationalised. The research hypothesis posits that an ethnographic investigation of LGBTQIAP+ sheltered people narratives uncovers the complex interplay between territorial formation and policy implementation, showing how these processes contribute to the creation of marginalized collective existences within shelter contexts. (AU)