Homelessness as a Choice

Parsell, Cameron; Parsell, Mitch

doi:10.1080/14036096.2012.667834

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“…In addition, there is an important role for social work to remove the symbolic burden of homelessness through advocacy work based on countering individualistic explanations of homelessness based on long-standing assumptions that homelessness is often a personal choice (Parsell & Parsell, 2012). A strengths-based approach has potential in promoting the value, self-worth and capabilities of the client and enhancing positive identity associations.…”

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The Salvaging of Identities among Homeless Men: Reflections for Social Work

Roche

2014

Australian Social Work

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This research reveals the social and individual processes that dominate the experiences of homeless men through an exploration of their struggle to achieve ontological worth. Drawing on eight in-depth interviews with homeless men who are experiencing homelessness, this research demonstrates this struggle is because of the situated nature of identities that homeless men continually reconstruct and renegotiate. It proposes that relations to this set of identities are relevant to homeless men, in particular the construction and reconstruction of their identities within homelessness. The central findings of this research reveal that homeless men actively manage their identities to cope with the instability inherent to the experience. The implications of this for social work practice are explored, focusing on the importance of self-conception and the restoration of positive identities.Homelessness in Australia remains a considerable social issue and large numbers of people continue to experience homelessness in an array of contexts and circumstances. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the complex social processes of homelessness and the ways in which subject positions, the socially constructed, fluid, and meaningful experiences that humans orient themselves within, are affected and altered by the experience of homelessness. This is investigated among homeless men, focusing on how they negotiate the impact of homelessness on their self-concept or self, the idea that people view themselves through the imagined eyes of others, as well as the multiple identities that comprise their self-concept.Through investigating ways in which homeless men salvage their identities from the negative social implications of homelessness, this research focuses on how they present relations to identities that establish self-worth and an integrated social self while deflecting the symbolic burden of homelessness. It is argued that this is negotiated by homeless men through a range of diversionary strategies and

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The Salvaging of Identities among Homeless Men: Reflections for Social Work

Roche

2014

Australian Social Work

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“…(Moraczewska 2013;Drzeżdżon 2014;Krajowy program... 2014). W opinii społecznej jawi się ona jednakże jako skutek podejmowania błęd-nych, często wręcz niemoralnych decyzji, uwarunkowanych trudnym charakterem bezdomnych i ich niezdolnością do spełnienia oczekiwań stawianych przez społeczeństwo (Parsell, Parsell 2012).…”

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Rozwiązywanie problemów mieszkaniowych osób bezdomnych na Ukrainie na tle sytuacji w Polsce

Solowij

Pielesiak

2016

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W artykule podjęto się porównania podejść do rozwiązywania problemów mieszkaniowych osób bezdomnych na Ukrainie i w Polsce. Szczególną uwagę poświęcono rodzajom obiektów mieszkaniowych oraz ich lokalizacji. Omówienie aktualnej sytuacji w Polsce stało się podstawą do sformułowania rekomendacji odnośnie kształtowania nowej polityki mieszkaniowej w zakresie lokalizacji i projektowania obiektów mieszkaniowych dla bezdomnych na Ukrainie.

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“…However, homelessness was a problem that the Coalition is committed to ending, and street homelessness, as an extreme state of social and material exclusion, was unacceptable for the NZCEH because of its serious consequences for people's health and dignity. An emphasis on human dignity had the effect of allowing room for people to be selfdetermining with respect to their lives and living situation (Parsell & Parsell 2012). However, allowing for this required acknowledgement that people have agency, which in turn invoked an individualistic perspective that risked supporting the notion of homelessness as a lifestyle choice.…”

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Houses with elastic walls: negotiating home and homelessness within the policy domain

Leggatt‐Cook

Chamberlain

2014

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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Efforts to address homelessness in New Zealand are marked by competing discourses that construct it as a housing issue, or more radically, as an issue of social exclusion. This paper presents a case study that illustrates the difficulties of reconciling these discourses when framing homelessness policy. Research was conducted with a national organisation involved in advocating to the New Zealand government on homelessness policy. Members of this group participated in focus groups exploring the meanings of home, homelessness and their advocacy work. The paper traces the challenges presented to the politics of social action by recognising homelessness as an issue of social exclusion, but needing to frame it as an issue of housing to effect policy change. It argues that social activist groups must routinely make pragmatic and strategic compromises that challenge the integrity of their ideological positions and their conceptual understandings, and develop group practices that allow them to resolve the tensions that this can generate.

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Homelessness as a Choice

Cited by 56 publications

References 29 publications

The Salvaging of Identities among Homeless Men: Reflections for Social Work

The Salvaging of Identities among Homeless Men: Reflections for Social Work

Rozwiązywanie problemów mieszkaniowych osób bezdomnych na Ukrainie na tle sytuacji w Polsce

Houses with elastic walls: negotiating home and homelessness within the policy domain

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