La mendicidad como estrategia de supervivencia de las personas con discapacidad, usuarias de la Fundación Ciudadanos en Acción, en Cuenca. Año 2023

Abstract

The research project addressed the social phenomenon of begging as a survival strategy, specifically in people with disabilities, users of the Ciudadanos en Acción Foundation. The general objective of the research is to explain begging as a survival strategy for people with disabilities, users of the Ciudadanos en Acción Foundation, in Cuenca, in the year 2023. The study had a qualitative approach, it was non-experimental research. and cross-sectional, with a hermeneutic phenomenological design and a non-experimental explanatory scope. We worked with 1 technique: the in-depth interview, which allowed obtaining detailed information of interest for the study. As the main conclusions of the research, it can be said that the people with disabilities who are users of the Ciudadanos Foundation in years, who engage in begging, are men and women, between the ages of 45 and 70, who choose begging as a survival strategy. survival due to the lack of opportunities and the barriers they encounter mainly due to their disability, age and level of education. The people studied have received open and symbolic violence due to their disability, however, the majority of them feel capable of working, and it is society that denies them the opportunity, thus causing them to choose begging as a means of survival to satisfy their needs their basic needs.