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Exploring the paths to homelessness: An ethnographic study of how disability, educational achievement, gender, foster care and poverty impacted the lives of two towns' homeless shelter residents.

机译：探索无家可归的途径：一项关于残疾，教育成就，性别，寄养和贫困如何影响两个城镇无家可归者收容所居民生活的人种学研究。

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This qualitative study explored and described the lived experiences of residents of two homeless shelters located in the Upper Midwest. Through testimonies of participants, common themes associated with homelessness were revealed, such as disability, domestic violence, food shortages, foster care, insecure housing, and poor educational achievement. Since education, or a lack thereof, sometimes played a part in the residents' inability to make a living wage, participants were queried about their schooling.;The public has a tendency to blame homeless people for their condition and assume that their plight is self-imposed due to substance abuse and a refusal to work (Diversi & Finley, 2010). While substance abuse was a factor in the lives of some of the residents and their parents, a more universal finding was that eight of the nine participants lived in foster care when they were growing up. Indeed, contrary to some popular beliefs, several participants had jobs, but they did not earn enough money to afford an apartment; hence they rented a room at the shelter. Other participants had a disability, which qualified them for a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from the federal government, which they used to pay for their accommodations at the shelter.;This study found that there were forces beyond "free will" that were responsible for the participant's homelessness. It also offered recommendations for ways to help emancipated foster care youth transitioning to adulthood, which may help decrease the rate of homelessness in the United States.
机译：这项定性研究探索并描述了位于中西部上层的两个无家可归者收容所的居民的生活经历。通过参与者的证词，揭示了与无家可归者相关的共同主题，例如残疾，家庭暴力，粮食短缺，寄养，不安全的住房和不良的教育成就。由于教育或缺乏教育有时会导致居民无法赚取生活费，参与者被问及他们的学业；公众倾向于指责无家可归者的状况，并认为他们的困境是自我的-由于滥用药物和拒绝工作而被强加（Diversi＆Finley，2010年）。虽然吸毒是某些居民及其父母生活的一个因素，但更普遍的发现是，九名参与者中有八名在他们成长过程中生活在寄养中。的确，与一些普遍的看法相反，一些参与者有工作，但他们没有足够的钱买房。因此他们在避难所租了一个房间。其他参与者有残疾，使他们有资格获得联邦政府的补充安全收入（SSI），他们曾用来支付庇护所的住宿费用。该研究发现，除了“自由意志”之外，还有其他部队负责为参与者的无家可归。它还提供了有关帮助解放后的寄养青年过渡到成年的方法的建议，这可能有助于降低美国无家可归的比率。

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    Arnau-Dewar, Sandra.;

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    The University of North Dakota.;

  • 授予单位 The University of North Dakota.;
  • 学科 Education Sociology of.;Sociology Public and Social Welfare.;Gender Studies.;Social Work.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 186 p.
  • 总页数 186
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:44:41

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