Abstract This article introduces the notion of ‘accumulated homelessness’ to account for repeated loss and lack home experienced by many migrants in Europe today. Through lens homelessness, we argue that debate on protracted displacement—often applied only developing countries—should be extended Europe. Going beyond idea shelterlessness, consider homelessness as a multidimensional multiscalar c...

Homelessness is one of the most difficult social issues, and people who have experienced homelessness are often exposed to stigmatisation negative public perception. Public perception homeless also depends on how citizens interpret what they attribute causes to. Therefore, this paper aimed at verifying causal attributions based Weiner’s three-dimensional attribution model. The aim research was ...

An analysis of 8251 homeless children in New York City found that 18% of them received child welfare services over the five-year period following their first shelter admission, and an additional 6% had a history of having received such services before their first shelter admission. Recurrent use of public shelters, exposure to domestic violence, older age at first episode of homelessness, and l...

Violence from intimate partners is a serious reality for a number of women. For some abused women, leaving becomes a path to homelessness. In fact, when abused women and their children leave their homes because of partner abuse, they become homeless even if they subsequently seek residence in a shelter for woman abuse. This project interviewed 62 women from across Canada who had been abused by ...

The relationship between criminal legal involvement and housing is complex because the causal arrow goes both ways. Research documents a homelessness-incarceration nexus whereby homelessness criminalized, incarceration leads to homelessness. In this article, we broaden scope of outcomes by considering instability more generally shift focus financial obligations (LFOs) as specific kind sanction,...

Homelessness is a significant and increasing problem in modern Russia, which admitted mostly by NGOs. In addition, academic, media state discourses, homelessness traditionally viewed as male phenomenon, there lack of research focused on the gender aspects Russia. Therefore, underrepresentation homeless women’s experiences their comparison to men’s experiences, academic policy influence diversit...

Psychiatrists who choose to practice in rural areas are faced with many challenges, including impoverished populations, stigmatization of mental health conditions, reduced access to treatment, and provider shortages. In addition, they are confronted with issues such as increased rates of suicide and binge drinking and nonmedical use of prescription medication among adolescents. Moreover, societ...

This article develops a social representational approach to understanding expert knowledge and its relation to health. Research with homelessness professionals (HPs) working in the UK voluntary sector shows that expert definitions of homelessness can either undermine or enhance the health of the homeless. Guided by the concepts of social representations and cognitive polyphasia, the analysis re...

Trans people are at considerably elevated risk of homelessness, yet services poorly meet their needs. I explore how community support, anchored in queer praxis and concrete utopian thinking enables trans to survive homelessness. Drawing upon interviews with 35 who have recently experienced homelessness Wales, practices mutual aid, contextualized by possibility, engender support for experiencing...

Abstract Background Homelessness is associated with health problems and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The risk of chronic conditions for homeless compared to housed youth, how this interacts ACEs remains unclear. This study investigated the relationship between ACEs, housing, child health, whether: 1) vary by housing context; 2) homelessness confer independent risks; 3) interact regard ...