Women’s Homelessness and Domestic Violence: (In)visible Interactions

Mayock, Paula; Bretherton, Joanne; Baptista, Isabel

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-54516-9_6

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“…One explanation for this could be that most women have been victimised before coming to the shelter. Earlier research has found that, for women, intimate partner violence is one of the main contributing factors for becoming homeless (FEANTSA, ; Mayock, Bretherton, & Baptista, ). Another explanation could be that some homeless women have been exposed to victimisation for so long that they have accepted this as the norm.…”

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“…Having become accustomed to being victimised, these experiences may not influence their perceived safety any longer (Thomas, Bartlett, & Mezey, ). In many European countries, mainstream shelter services for homeless people are not specifically geared towards women who have experienced violence (Mayock et al, ). Because shelters are generally a male dominated environment, it is important that vulnerable women are stably housed in the community as soon as possible (Mayock, Parker, & Sheridan, ).…”

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Differences between homeless women and men before and after the transition from shelter to community living: A longitudinal analysis

Vet¹,

Beijersbergen²,

Lako

et al. 2019

Health Soc Care Community

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Social quality is the extent to which people are able to participate in social relationships under conditions which enhance their well‐being, capacities and potential and enables them to shape their own circumstances and contribute to societal development. We assessed whether women in homeless shelters differed from men on social quality factors that constitute the quality of their daily life and whether factor scores changed at a different rate for women and men after shelter exit. Data were collected as part of a randomised controlled trial. In 18 shelters across the Netherlands, 183 participants were recruited between December 2010 and December 2012 and followed for 9 months. Adults were eligible if they were about to move from shelter to (supported) independent housing and their shelter stay had been shorter than 14 months. At baseline, women were significantly younger than men. They were more likely to have children, to have minor children staying with them, to be lower educated, to be unemployed and to have been victimised than men. Women had used more services and reported lower self‐esteem, less satisfaction with health and empowerment and higher psychological distress. They were less likely than men to have used alcohol excessively or cannabis. We found no significant differences between women and men in changes over time on the social quality factors. As women were disadvantaged at baseline compared to men regarding many factors, we concluded that women in homeless shelters are a particularly vulnerable group. Moreover, an opportunity remains for shelter services to improve women's social quality during and after their shelter stay.

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Differences between homeless women and men before and after the transition from shelter to community living: A longitudinal analysis

Vet¹,

Beijersbergen²,

Lako

et al. 2019

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“…Overcrowded facilities, lack of safe and sanitary accommodation, lack of access to services-health, protective or psychological-for GBV survivors (Canning, 2016), as well as language barriers to accessing services, render women and girls more vulnerable to GBV. Finally, there are links between migrant women's homelessness and domestic violence (Mayock et al, 2016). "Transactional sex," a form of GBV, is not exceptional both in migrant and refugee routes as well as in camps as a strategy.…”

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The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean

2021

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This paper derives from a larger research on gender-based violence and precarity in the forced migration journeys of asylum-seeking women transiting through the Eastern Mediterranean route and arriving in Greece, in the tumultuous, second decade of the 21st century. In this paper we present the findings from the first phase of the research. We analyze and discuss the opinions and information gathered through semi-structured interviews with twenty key informants: service providers, staff of international and national NGOs, local government staff and public officials. Our findings locate the five points/loci in irregular cross-border movements and arrival at an EU member-state where precarity interweaves with gender-based violence. The first locus, is in transit and EU and Greek border crossing; second, during the asylum determination process; third, in their everyday life when they must deal with homelessness and harsh living conditions; fourth, in the deficiency of care services further aggravated by intersectional discrimination; finally, by being trapped in abusive settings and relationships due to the ineffective state response, a sluggish criminal justice system, and the victim’s financial dependence on the perpetrator. Adopting a feminist and intersectional approach our analysis shows that violence and precarity are co-constituted and reinforce each other through the undermining of the citizenship status of asylum seekers and the inscription, on their bodies and lives, of unequal gendered social and institutional power relations.

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“…Worldwide, the evidence base is less robust about women's homelessness than men's homelessness [33][34][35][36]. Reports show that women are ignored in homelessness services due to the reason that homelessness is regarded as a problem of men [32].…”

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Pathways through homelessness among women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A qualitative study

Haile¹,

Umer²,

Fanta³

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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Background There has been a paradigm shift in understanding homelessness. The shift is from the belief that homelessness results from lack of secure housing towards the view which explains homelessness in terms of the complex interactions of factors which determine the pathways into and out of homelessness. The evidence base for women's homelessness is less robust than men's homelessness. The effect of gender and its relationship with homelessness has been neglected. Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, is estimated to be home for around 50,000 homeless people. This study aims to explore pathways through homelessness in women who were sheltered in a facility for the homeless in Addis Ababa.

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Women’s Homelessness and Domestic Violence: (In)visible Interactions

Cited by 35 publications

References 53 publications

Differences between homeless women and men before and after the transition from shelter to community living: A longitudinal analysis

Differences between homeless women and men before and after the transition from shelter to community living: A longitudinal analysis

The Gender-Based Violence and Precarity Nexus: Asylum-Seeking Women in the Eastern Mediterranean

Pathways through homelessness among women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A qualitative study

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