Les SDF et l’itinérance

Rullac, Stéphane

doi:10.7202/044229ar

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“…The new approach was a political and a humanitarian choice, anchored in a government action plan to tackle the growing population of highly marginalized people without access to fundamental human rights (such as healthcare) and the prominence of ‘la question SDF ( sans domicile fixe )’ or ‘homeless issue’ (Damon 2008 ). Framing marginalized populations as victims opened the door to experimental projects (such as the Samusocial , a street-based mobile outreach service in Paris) that rapidly became tools of government action, thus officializing the notion of ‘social emergency’ (Rullac 2008 ; Cefaï and Gardella 2011 ). At the same time, public health approaches in many French cities – employing mobile teams with peer support workers, based on the principle of ‘harm reduction’ – encouraged strategies to meet drug users ‘where they are’.…”

Section: ‘Targeting’ a Population On The Margins Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Caring on the margins of the healthcare system

Sarradon-Eck

Farnarier

Hymans

2014

Anthropology & Medicine

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This paper addresses the working practices of a mobile mental health outreach team in a large French city, one that ‘targets’ homeless people with severe psychiatric disorders who are considered ‘hard to reach’ by the public health authorities and medical services. Analysis of the team's work – where acts of curing and caring are closely tied – reveals the importance of moving beyond a polarized vision of cure and care. The paper departs from much of the literature on the medicalization of social problems by arguing that medicalization is not only a means of social control, but has ethical value as well. In examining the practices of frontline health workers, it aims to show that integrating the methods and theoretical approaches of social work in medical practice is necessary to address the specific problems of homeless people, to enable health professionals to pursue medical cures, and to challenge the shortcomings of public policy.

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Section: ‘Targeting’ a Population On The Margins Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“… 1. In particular the Don Quichotte movement during the winter of 2006–2007 refused the emergency response as it only provided immediate short-term housing rather than a long-term solution to a chronic social problem (Rullac 2008 ). 2.…”

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confidence: 99%