‘Red dust homelessness’: Housing, home and homelessness in remote Australia

Zufferey, Carole; Chung, Donna

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.07.002

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“…Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) individuals are overrepresented within the Australian homeless population and may have experienced abuse and rejection from family and even other homeless individuals and service providers due to their sexual orientation or identity (Oakley & Bletsas, ). Indigenous Australians are also overrepresented in the homeless population and have endured substantive marginalisation in the wake of colonialism, dispossession and maltreatment from non‐Indigenous Australians (Zufferey & Chung, , p. 13). Thus, some groups may develop and/or benefit from homelessness connections more than others.…”

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Australian homeless persons’ experiences of social connectedness, isolation and loneliness

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Conroy

Perz

2017

Health Soc Care Community

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Both loneliness and a lack of social integration are associated with serious physical and psychological health issues. One population highly susceptible to social isolation and loneliness are individuals who are homeless, who also experience high rates of mental disorder and relationship breakdown. Despite this, little research has explored how social networks, isolation and loneliness are experienced for those with a history of homelessness. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were used to get a nuanced understanding of how social networks and isolation are experienced and understood by individuals experiencing homelessness. Sixteen participants who were either homeless (n = 11) or previously homeless (n = 5) in Sydney, Australia, completed one-off interviews that were audio-recorded and transcribed. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Participants constructed their social networks as being both constrained and enabled by marginalisation. They experienced rejection from the non-homeless: the loss of critical network members, including rejection from family and a lack of companionship, and low quality and precarious relationships within the homeless community. These accounts were best conceptualised through loneliness theory. Participant's accounts signal that the homeless will likely continue feeling isolated if mainstream attitudes towards homelessness remain stigmatising and discriminatory.

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Australian homeless persons’ experiences of social connectedness, isolation and loneliness

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Conroy

Perz

2017

Health Soc Care Community

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“…If a population is more visible, then they are more likely to be a target for all police encounters, including community policing. Whether it is because of unsafe home environments LGBTIQ+ people; Asquith et al 2019Asquith et al , 2020Dwyer 2014), overcrowding at home (CALD, working class and Indigenous peoples; Dench et al 2006;McCarty 2010;Zufferey and Chung 2015), the desire to socialise without parental and family oversight (youth and disabled people; Lauger 2014;Mill et al 2010;Slater 2013), or simply not having a home to escape police attention (Braga 2010;McNamara et al 2013;Piquero 2010), some vulnerable people are more likely to be out in public. As such, they will encounter police more often than those with the privilege of conducting their criminal activity behind the safety of locked doors (homes or businesses).…”

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Working with Vulnerable Offenders

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Bartkowiak-Théron

2021

Policing Practices and Vulnerable People

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“…Zufferey and Kerr (2004), Zufferey and Rowntree (2014), Zufferey and Chung (2015), and Zufferey (2017) have used critical and social constructionist epistemology to explore how homelessness, social work, and social services are constituted through intersecting and unequal power relations. Influenced by the work of social work scholars (Hulko, 2015; Murphy et al, 2009), Zufferey argues for an intersectional approach that incorporates reflections on both oppression and privilege.…”

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Soup kitchens: The stigma of being poor and the construction of social identity

Nichols

2020

International Social Work

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This project involved an ethnographic study that documented how homeless individuals who frequent local soup kitchens view themselves and how they manage the stigma that can be associated with this population. Qualitative techniques of observation and brief conversations over a 3-year period with more than 100 soup kitchen participants constituted the data. Findings of this project confirm the earlier work of Goffman and more recent work where clear stigma responses and identities were observed in homeless and low-income adults.

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‘Red dust homelessness’: Housing, home and homelessness in remote Australia

Cited by 35 publications

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Australian homeless persons’ experiences of social connectedness, isolation and loneliness

Australian homeless persons’ experiences of social connectedness, isolation and loneliness

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Soup kitchens: The stigma of being poor and the construction of social identity

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