Relatos de vidas en la pobreza. Estrategias individuales de usuarios de la Renta Mínima de Inserción

The article studies the different strategies of users of the ‘Minimum Income of Insertion’ in Spain from a review of the theoretical perspective of assets accumulation, developed for the study of the dynamics of poverty and exclusion in other contexts. For this purpose, three life stories are used that have been selected from a larger sample. From the analysis of the biographical narratives of the subjects, a typology of individual economic strategies is constructed based on the type of assets mobilised.