Women Rough Sleepers In Europe

Author : Moss, Kate,Singh, Paramjit
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447334606

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Women Rough Sleepers in Europe by Moss, Kate,Singh, Paramjit Pdf

Women’s rough sleeping is a major issue across Europe and is especially problematic within the current economic climate. Based on a European Union DAPHNE III-funded project, this important book tells the story of the women and organisations that took part in the study. Revealing a number of truths about women’s rough sleeping across Europe, the authors argue that there is little or no specific provision for this vulnerable and hard to reach group. The book focuses on the adoption of effective policy, strategies and services to meet the needs of homeless women, specifically women rough sleepers who are the victims of domestic abuse. It will be a valuable resource for academics and students of criminology, social policy, law, social work and probation, as well as housing/homelessness practitioners, policy makers, local authorities and NGOs.

Author : Kate Moss,Paramjit Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Abused women
ISBN : 1447317106

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Women Rough Sleepers in Europe by Kate Moss,Paramjit Singh Pdf

The authors reveal a number of truths about women's rough sleeping across Europe and argue for the adoption of effective policy, strategies and services to meet the needs of homeless women and the specific problem of women rough sleepers who are the victims of domestic abuse.

Author : Paula Mayock,Joanne Bretherton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137545169

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Women’s Homelessness in Europe by Paula Mayock,Joanne Bretherton Pdf

This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of this acute social problem, including its relationship with domestic violence, lone parenthood, motherhood, health and well-being and women’s experience of sustained and recurrent homelessness. Working from diverse perspectives, the authors look at the responses to women’s homelessness in differing cultures and regions, and within various forms of welfare states. They focus in particular on relating the gender dimensions of welfare and social policy to women’s experiences when they become homeless. This innovative and timely edited volume will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, social policy, anthropology, and gender and women’s studies, along with international policy-makers.

Author : Bill Edgar,Joe Doherty,FEANTSA (Organization),Joint Centre for Scottish Housing Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111033762

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Women and Homelessness in Europe by Bill Edgar,Joe Doherty,FEANTSA (Organization),Joint Centre for Scottish Housing Research Pdf

This unique volume provides, for the first time, a picture of the nature and causes of homelessness among women across the European member states. Its findings will stimulate further research and encourage transnational cooperation in the development of appropriate policies and support services.Women and homelessness in Europe: considers the gender-specific issues contributing towards homelessness among women in Europe;assesses the contribution of economic and social change to the risk of homelessness;examines the changing composition of the female homeless population;describes the pattern and evaluates the effectiveness of service provision available to homeless women;explores the experiences of homeless women using these services.

Author : O'Sullivan, Eoin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447353515

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Reimagining Homelessness by O'Sullivan, Eoin Pdf

The number of people experiencing homelessness is rising in the majority of advanced western economies. Responses to these rising numbers are variable but broadly include elements of congregate emergency accommodation, long-term supported accommodation, survivalist services and degrees of coercion. It is evident that these policies are failing. Using contemporary research, policy and practice examples, this book uses the Irish experience to argue that we need to urgently reimagine homelessness as a pattern of residential instability and economic precariousness regularly experienced by marginal households. Bringing to light stark evidence, it proves that current responses to homelessness only maintain or exacerbate this instability rather than arrest it and provides a robust evidence base to reimagine how we respond to homelessness.

Author : Cameron Parsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351381390

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The Homeless Person in Contemporary Society by Cameron Parsell Pdf

The homeless person is thought to be different. Whereas we get to determine our difference or sameness, the homeless person’s difference is imposed upon them and assumed to be known because of their homelessness. Exclusion from housing – either a commodity that should be accessed from the market or social provision – signifies the homeless person’s incapacities and failure to function in what are presented as unproblematic social systems. Drawing on a program of research spanning ten years, this book provides an empirically grounded account of the lives and identities of people who are homeless. It illustrates that people with chronic experiences of homelessness have relatively predictable biographies characterised by exclusion, poverty, and trauma from early in life. Early experiences of exclusion continue to pervade the lives of people who are homeless in adulthood, yet they identify with family and normative values as a means of imaging aspirational futures.

Author : D. Hellegers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230339200

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No Room of Her Own by D. Hellegers Pdf

This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular.

Author : Tamsen Courtenay
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783525706

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Four Feet Under by Tamsen Courtenay Pdf

‘Touching, insightful and human – this book demands a social and, above all, a political response’ Jon Snow Tamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking to people who live on London’s streets, the homeless and the destitute – people who feel they are invisible. With a camera and a cheap audio recorder, she listened as they chronicled their extraordinary lives, now being lived four feet below most Londoners, and she set about documenting their stories, which are transcribed in this book along with intimate photographic portraits. A builder, a soldier, a transgender woman, a child and an elderly couple are among those who describe the events that brought them to the lives they lead now. They speak of childhoods, careers and relationships; their strengths and weaknesses, dreams and regrets; all with humour and a startling honesty. Tamsen’s observations and remarkable experiences are threaded throughout. The astonishing people she met changed her for ever, as they became her heroes, people she grew to respect. You don’t have to go far to find these homegrown exiles: they’re at the bottom of your road. Have you ever wondered how they got there?

Author : Satomi Maruyama
Publisher : Japanese Society
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1920901744

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Living on the Streets in Japan by Satomi Maruyama Pdf

Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an unemployed male laborer - a model that has largely excluded women, who experience homelessness in different forms. This study gives the homeless women of Japan a voice at last. Based on extensive fieldwork, the author paints a vivid picture of the unique experiences of homeless women living in a diverse range of environments. By introducing a gender perspective to the analytic framework and challenging the conception of the homeless individual as a rational, autonomous subject, the author invites a critical reconsideration of homeless studies and of public policy.

Author : Gregory Smith
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143785293

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Out of the Forest by Gregory Smith Pdf

What makes a man turn his back on society? What makes him return? For years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. But who was this mysterious man who roamed the forest and knew all of its secrets and riddles? Some people thought he might be Jesus. Others feared he was a more sinister figure. The truth was that he was neither miraculous nor malevolent, but he was, most certainly, gifted. And when he finally emerged from the forest, emaciated and close to death, he was determined to reclaim his real name and ‘give society another chance’. Today, Dr Gregory Peel Smith, who left school at the age of fourteen, has a PhD and teaches in the Social Sciences at university. His profoundly touching and uplifting memoir is at once a unique insight into how far off track a life can go and powerful reminder that we can all find our way back if we pause for a moment in the heart of the forest.

Author : Bill Edgar,Isobel Anderson,FEANTSA (Organization),Joe Doherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9075529708

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Homelessness Research in Europe by Bill Edgar,Isobel Anderson,FEANTSA (Organization),Joe Doherty Pdf

Author : Harrison, Malcolm,Davis, Cathy
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781861343055

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Housing, Social Policy and Difference by Harrison, Malcolm,Davis, Cathy Pdf

How does the welfare state and its institutions respond to impairment, ethnicity and gender? This book provides an overview of issues set in the context of housing. From ethnic minority housing needs to the housing implications of domestic violence, it shows how difference is regulated in housing.

Author : Donovan, Catherine,Hester, Marianne
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447307433

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Domestic Violence and Sexuality by Donovan, Catherine,Hester, Marianne Pdf

This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same-sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between same-sex and heterosexual contexts. Catherine Donovan and Marianne Hester examine how experiences of domestic violence and abuse are shaped by gender, sexuality, and age, seeking to understand what factors drive victims to seek?or not seek?help. Employing a pioneering methodology that includes both quantitative and qualitative research, they provide a new framework of analysis?what they call ?practices of love”?that challenges heteronormative models of engaging domestic violence in research, policy, and practice.

Author : Carl O. Helvie,Wilfried Kunstmann
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015045646273

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Homelessness in the United States, Europe, and Russia by Carl O. Helvie,Wilfried Kunstmann Pdf

The editors of this book draw upon professionals in seven industrialized nations to examine the prevalence, causes, trends, demographics, and health concerns of homelessness and to evaluate potential solutions. They also report on the resources available to the homeless by the public and private sectors in each of the seven countries studied; the United States, Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Russia, and Spain. Also provided is a comparison of social welfare systems in industrialized nations with perhaps the most current and accurate statistics regarding Russia available in the literature. The two East European countries, the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation, represent the most radical changes, from a state to a free market economy with their social systems turned upside down. While the former socialist governments provided a system of universalistic care and control, the released uncontrolled free market forces have been eroding most social protection for the individual. Consequently, homelessness as a new phenomena affects those who are not able to compete in the free market economy. The editors tie the data and country-specific chapters together with a series of concluding chapters that include discussions of resources to prevent homelessness, financial resources for the unemployed, social welfare benefits for the indigent, access to health care and sickness benefits, affordable housing and housing policies, and public and private resources for the homeless.

Author : Nicholas Pleace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133552682

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Statutory Homelessness in England by Nicholas Pleace Pdf

The main aim of this study was to provide robust statistical evidenc eon families and 16-17 year olds accepted as owed the main homelessness duty by English local authorities, in order to inform effective policy interventions.