Abstract
Brazilian highway wanderers are individuals that walk long-distance on foot and practically forgot of assistance institutions. This paper aims to present the access conditions of Brazilian highway wanderers to institutional assistances and discuss about the control strategies used by them under contemporary wandering flow. This research was conducted in four assistance institutions in São Paulo State by means of a semi-structured interview with participation of seven interviewed. The results showed that access conditions to the Brazilian highway wanderers arrive at help institutions happen through spontaneous way or patrol surveillances commanded by military police, municipal guard and tollgates. These institutional access conditions are biopolicies strategies used by State that under the social normalization effects control and distribute these individuals toward opened spaces of brazilian highways.
Institutional psychology; social control; assistance
