Homelessness and the meaning of home: rooflessness or rootlessness?

Somerville, Peter (1992) Homelessness and the meaning of home: rooflessness or rootlessness? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 16 (4). pp. 529-539. ISSN 0305-5736

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Abstract

This paper has several objectives. These are: (1) to analyse the meaning of homelessness in the light of recent contributions on the meaning of home: (2) to criticize some current perspectives on homelessness as a social problem; (3) to identify and explore a number of different dimensions of the meaning of home and homelessness; (4) to reassess the evidence on the context of home and homelessness, and re-examine the meaning of homelessness in the light of that reassessed evidence; and (5) to explain the political meaning of homelessness as expressed in official definitions, legislation and state provision (or lack of it).

Keywords:Homelessness
Subjects:L Social studies > L410 UK Social Policy
L Social studies > L400 Social Policy
Divisions:College of Social Science > School of Social & Political Sciences
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Deposited On:02 Aug 2010 14:33

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