Examines the diversities and complexities of homelessness and social work research, policy and practice. It explores how homelessness and social work are constituted through intersecting and unequal power relations. The causes of homelessness are frequently associated with indiv…
The following research addresses some of the contemporary problems that individuals experiencing homelessness face; specifically, investigating the decision to forgo shelter services and spend nights in places unfit for human inhabitation, a phenomenon known as sleeping rough. T…
The picaresque genre attempts to represent a subject outside History—in early modern Europe, the newly dispossessed peasant, “dissolute, crooked, thieving and idle”—who will eventually become the modern wage laborer. The genre uses slapstick humor and parody to make for witty st…
Homelessness in America continues to be a pervasive problem, with veterans being disproportionately represented in this population. As the Iraq/Afghanistan war soldiers return to civilian life, worries about this population and the risk of homelessness is growing. Female soldier…
This qualitative study used the phenomenological approach to explore the experiences of male homeless veterans in a southeastern community. Using the snowball sampling method, this research collected information from a selected self-reported, nonrandom group of male veterans who…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how urban, young adults assessed received social supports (Vaux, 1988) during homelessness in high school. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness (2007), approximately 1 to 1.5 million youth under the age of 18…