The rejection of vagrancy in the 19th century. An approach of the phenomenon in Antioquia

Abstract

At the time from the autonomy of the Spanish empire, some forms of organizing society through social control persisted. In Antioquia, vagrancy served as a category to address poverty, and through its persecution the marginalization of many sectors of the Antioquia society of the old regime, in the republic. This presentation seeks to take a tour in order to understand how the previously mentioned happened. In the first place from a theoretical analysis of the source, to understand why it is possible to know the marginalized; second, with a theoretical analysis on the rejection of poverty, it seeks to understand how certain precepts of Bourbon politics, which are evidenced in the documentation and the laws, allowed the poor to not be taken in mind in the social organization; and third, understand why marginality remained until the republic.