Being Homeless and Becoming Housed: The Interplay of Fateful Moments and Social Support in Neo-liberal Context

Webb, Jason; Gazso, Amber

doi:10.26522/ssj.v11i1.1398

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“…For example, Gill's long-term friendship with a day labourer in Yokohama who had experienced episodes of homelessness confirmed the lack of a family relationship (2015). In my experience, some men lived in small groups of four or five, and they worked as fictive kin groups (Stack 1975;Nelson 2014;Webb and Gazso 2017). These groups of homeless men would share resources and look out for each other, but these social relations were not emotionally deep because men guarded their privacy, limiting what they shared with others.…”

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The Precarious Lives of Homeless Scavengers in Tokyo Before and After the 2008 Crisis

Wickens¹

2022

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Awareness of poverty in Japan significantly increased after the bubble economy ended in 1991. The presence of older men, approaching or past retirement age, living in blue tents and on park benches, was one of the first to challenge the assumption of a classless Japan. One strategy for men experiencing homelessness to alleviate their hardships and survive is to gather and sell aluminium cans. This paper ethnographically explores their precarious work and documents the various patterns of gathering and selling cans, while also looking at the impact of both local and global forces (neoliberalism) on their work. Based on fieldwork that included the economic recession of 2008–2009, I observed six months of the work of the homeless during economic stability and six months during a severe recession. My research shows how homeless men used the work of gathering and selling cans to survive during a stagnant economy and then adapted to a brutal recession, which resulted in much lower income for their labour as the price of aluminium significantly decreased. I argue that their work was affected by the global economy and that collecting cans and earning money helped homeless men survive through the crisis. Finally, I conclude that earning money via selling cans allowed the men to maintain their self-respect and pride, have a sense of purpose, buy daily necessities, and occasionally splurge on entertainment.

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The Precarious Lives of Homeless Scavengers in Tokyo Before and After the 2008 Crisis

Wickens¹

2022

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“…§ 5732). The majority of youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) have left unsafe home environments in which familial hostility and discord (Gaetz et al, 2016; Webb & Gazsco, 2017), physical and sexual abuse (Coates & McKenzie-Mohr, 2010; Tyler & Schmitz, 2018), negative involvement with child welfare systems (Gaetz et al, 2016; Webb & Gazsco, 2017), and disownment from families of origin based on gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation are familiar occurrences (Abramovich, 2012; Rosario et al, 2012).…”

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Counter-Narratives of Structural Oppressions, Stigma and Resistance, and Reproductive and Sexual Health Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness

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Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) face myriad injustices regarding their reproductive and sexual health and rights. Reproductive and sexual health research with YEH often explores condom-use and sexually transmitted infections, potentially contributing to narrow conceptualizations of YEH as “unclean” or in need of disease-screening. A narrative theory perspective was applied to this study, which allowed for the emergence of alternative storylines, or counter-narratives, which attend to manifestations of power and oppression within the lives of marginalized individuals. Qualitative interviews engaged 30 young people (ages 18–21) accessing shelter services. Narrative analyses identified YEHs’ documentations of dominant narratives related to structural oppressions, stigma, and numerous dimensions of reproductive and sexual health including how they create, through their resistance, counter-narratives that include their preferred futures. YEH emphasized systemic sources of stigma and outlined their criticisms of the state. Within-group stigma emerged as a noteworthy theme, with YEH showing both empathy and ambivalence towards other YEH, along with internalization of stigmatizing narratives about pregnancy and homelessness. Approaches to service provision that further amplify youths’ voices in naming and challenging the many oppressions and stigmas they face should be prioritized. Moreover, policies should be implemented to dismantle the actual root causes of challenges faced by YEH, rather than perpetuating them through measures rooted in interlocking oppressions of discrimination, inequity, and judgment.

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A community of singers: employing exploratory cluster analysis to reveal profiles of psychosocial characteristics among members of a street choir for homeless and formerly homeless individuals

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Murphy

et al. 2018

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

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Being Homeless and Becoming Housed: The Interplay of Fateful Moments and Social Support in Neo-liberal Context

Abstract: This paper presents a qualitative analysis of stories of adults who

Cited by 8 publications

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The Precarious Lives of Homeless Scavengers in Tokyo Before and After the 2008 Crisis

The Precarious Lives of Homeless Scavengers in Tokyo Before and After the 2008 Crisis

Counter-Narratives of Structural Oppressions, Stigma and Resistance, and Reproductive and Sexual Health Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness

A community of singers: employing exploratory cluster analysis to reveal profiles of psychosocial characteristics among members of a street choir for homeless and formerly homeless individuals

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