The Trappings of Home

Young Homeless People's Transitions Towards Independent Living

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ID11484652
AutoresMarkus Brueckner (0000-0002-0011-4513, Curtin University, autor correspondente), Martin Brueckner (Curtin University), Meredith J Green (Edith Cowan University), Meredith Green (Edith Cowan University), Sherry Sagger (0000-0002-4215-2091, Curtin University), Sherry Saggers (Curtin University of Technology, National Drug Research Institute)
Ano2011
Volume26
Fascículo1
Páginas1-16
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHousing Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0267-3037 • E-ISSN: 1466-1810
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02673037.2010.512751
OpenAlexW1979676563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas51

This paper describes the experiences of young homeless people in Western Australia during their transitions to more permanent accommodation and independent living. For these young homeless people, permanent accommodation provided an opportunity for ‘feeling at home’ and having a sense of control and stability associated with ‘home’. Within this space, these young people wanted to be considered ‘normal’ home occupiers. In this context, the paper discusses how young homeless people experience and negotiate the social and cultural understandings of home outside socially accepted pathways of leaving the parental home and becoming ‘normal’ home occupiers themselves. The paper shows how this experience of home, and the potential it offers previously homeless young people, is interrupted by discourses of youth workers, neighbours and society at large, which serve to (re)position them outside the community of ‘normal’ home occupiers. The findings have implications for both policy and the delivery of services to young homeless people

Accommodation · Context (archaeology · Feeling · Geography · Independent living · Negotiation · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Gerontology