Context, Context, Context: A Commentary on Responding to People Sleeping Rough: Dilemmas and Opportunities for Social Work, (Parsell, 2011)

Coleman, A. P. M.

doi:10.1080/0312407x.2012.674539

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“…Debate has emerged over the best ways in which social work can intervene in homelessness centring around affordable housing (Parsell, 2011) and advocacy for systemic change in important welfare pillars such as income support and education (Coleman, 2012). Zufferey (2008) contributed an analysis of the contexts and agendas that social workers operate within in homelessness service roles and promoted the contingent practice perspectives of these social workers.…”

Section: The Negative Imputations Of Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Salvaging of Identities among Homeless Men: Reflections for Social Work

Roche

2014

Australian Social Work

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This research reveals the social and individual processes that dominate the experiences of homeless men through an exploration of their struggle to achieve ontological worth. Drawing on eight in-depth interviews with homeless men who are experiencing homelessness, this research demonstrates this struggle is because of the situated nature of identities that homeless men continually reconstruct and renegotiate. It proposes that relations to this set of identities are relevant to homeless men, in particular the construction and reconstruction of their identities within homelessness. The central findings of this research reveal that homeless men actively manage their identities to cope with the instability inherent to the experience. The implications of this for social work practice are explored, focusing on the importance of self-conception and the restoration of positive identities.Homelessness in Australia remains a considerable social issue and large numbers of people continue to experience homelessness in an array of contexts and circumstances. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the complex social processes of homelessness and the ways in which subject positions, the socially constructed, fluid, and meaningful experiences that humans orient themselves within, are affected and altered by the experience of homelessness. This is investigated among homeless men, focusing on how they negotiate the impact of homelessness on their self-concept or self, the idea that people view themselves through the imagined eyes of others, as well as the multiple identities that comprise their self-concept.Through investigating ways in which homeless men salvage their identities from the negative social implications of homelessness, this research focuses on how they present relations to identities that establish self-worth and an integrated social self while deflecting the symbolic burden of homelessness. It is argued that this is negotiated by homeless men through a range of diversionary strategies and

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Section: The Negative Imputations Of Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%