Vulnerabilità e Riconoscimento. Il diritto alla salute e all‟abitazione come terreni di prova del legame sociale

In this text I investigated how the political choices about health rights and house polices could affect the personal biographies. I chose to engage my research among two vulnerable social groups, actually, undocumented migrants and homeless people and I noticed that their rights are constantly neglected by the public institutions. By consequence, the civil society is strongly engage in the social support of these people. In the place where I carried out research I practiced the participative observation and I collected many interviews. From this sources I noticed that the people who attend these places demand practical assistance as well as psychological and affective support. In fact, the interviewed used to express really high expectations toward the aid workers who operate in the consulting rooms or in the homeless shelters and these expectations are related to a personal recognition’s request. The personal recognition is a process that affect many settings, such as the relationship with the family and the partner, but also the social and political experience. Usually the personal recognition is completed by the political participation and the interaction with the public institutions; however, for the vulnerable people I met this is not possible, because they are legally or informally excluded from the political-institutional sphere. For this reason undocumented migrants and homeless people could make experience of complete recognition only by the relationships with the civil society. In this way the civil society’s associations are taking charge of a great responsibility but they are not able to satisfied it completely. This situation is increasing the crisis of the social bound.