Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1996.

Este trabalho é um estudo sobre mulheres adultas em situação de rua, os profissionais que cuidam delas e a cobertura jornalística sobre essa temática. As mulheres em situação de rua da cidade do Rio de Janeiro são minoria se comparadas ao contingente masculino. De acordo com o Censo População de Rua 2013 \"Um Direito à Cidade\", realizado pela Secretaria Municipal de Desenvolvimento Social do Rio de Janeiro, dos 5.580 desabrigados do município, apenas 18,2%, ou seja, 1.044 eram mulheres. Partindo da hipótese de que as notícias divulgadas na grande mídia sobre as mulheres em situação de rua causam o descontentamento delas e de especialistas, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo principal desvendar o posicionamento das mulheres adultas em situação de rua e o dos profissionais que trabalham com elas acerca do jornalismo e das notícias que tratam sobre a situação de rua. A metodologia do trabalho comportou um levantamento bibliográfico, entrevistas semiabertas com mulheres em situação de rua e profissionais (MANZINI, 2004) e análise de conteúdo de matérias jornalísticas (BARDIN, 1970). O trabalho tem quatro partes. A primeira traz o relato das entrevistas de 15 mulheres adultas em situação de rua contactadas em Unidades de Reinserção Social (URS) da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. A segunda parte revela os profissionais e suas trajetórias com a população de rua; discorre sobre as abordagens feitas pelas equipes de ordenamento urbano na cidade do Rio de Janeiro e sobre a vida regrada nos abrigos públicos aos quais as mulheres desabrigadas são destinadas. O terceiro capítulo avalia a compreensão que as mulheres têm a respeito da cidadania e expõe as teorias sobre notícias, jornalismo e jornalistas. A seguir, foi exposto o que os dois grupos entrevistados compreendiam ser o jornalismo e as notícias que viam nos meios de comunicação. No quarto capítulo, analisou-se algumas notícias sobre população em situação de rua coletadas de 2007 a 2015 nos jornais online Extra e O Globo, publicações citadas pelos entrevistados e que serviram para detectar as percepções dos entrevistados a propósito da cobertura de mídia mais adequada sobre o fenômeno da situação de rua. Neste capítulo, também foram trabalhadas as expectativas das entrevistadas sobre o futuro, sua realizações, frustrações, medos e anseios de vida. Concluiuse que os profissionais que trabalhavam com população de rua acreditavam que as notícias sobre o assunto causavam desserviços, enquanto a maioria das mulheres em situação de rua, pela suas condições de vida, não tinham acesso aos meios de informação que permitissem avaliar notícias jornalísticas / This is a study about homeless women, the professionals that care for them, and the media coverage of this theme. Homeless women in the city of Rio de Janeiro are the minority of the homeless population. According to the Homeless Population Census 2013 \"A Right to the City\", carried out by the Secretaria Municipal de Desenvolvimento Social do Rio de Janeiro, out of 5,580 homeless people in the municipality, only 18.2% (1,044 individuals) were women. Starting from the premise that all the news items about homeless women cause discontent amongst these women and of specialists in the subject, this research had the main goal of uncovering the position of homeless women, and the professionals that work with them, about the news items that deal with homelessness. The methodology of the work reviewed bibliography, carried out semi-open interviews with homeless women and professionals, (MANZINI, 2004) and analysed the content of media coverage (BARDIN, 1970). The work consists of four parts. The first brings a report of 15 interviews with homeless women contacted in Units of Social Reintegration (Unidades de Reinserção Social--URS) of Rio de Janeiro. The second part reveals the professionals and their work history with the homeless; it relates the work approach of the teams of urban ordering of Rio de Janeiro and the rules of public shelters to which homeless women go. The third part evaluates the understanding these women have about citizenship and discusses theories about news, journalism and journalists. Then, it is shown what the two groups that were interviewed understood of journalism and the news in the media. The fourth part analyses some news items about homeless people collected between 2007 and 2015 in the newspapers Extra and O Globo, publications that were cited by the people interviewed and which served to detect the perceptions of those interviewed about themedia coverage more adequate about the phenomenon of homelessness. This section also deals with the expectations about the future, their expectations, achievements, frustrations, fears, and desires in life. We conclude that the professionals that worked with the homeless believed that the media coverage of the issue causes damage, while most of the homeless women, because of the living conditions, did not have access to the media and were unable to evaluate the news coverage.

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This thesis - The issue of homelessness women: Social work at the shelter for women deals with the issue of homelessness for women and more women using homeless through social work in a particular social service - a shelter for women. The theoretical part describes the basic concepts related to homelessness; characteristics of homelessness; forms of homelessness; homelessness for women - causes and circumstances that led to the loss of home; forms of assistance; inclusion in housing and society; social work in shelter for women - services targets; concrete assistance and cooperation of social worker with clients; roles and responsibilities of social workers; pitfalls of social work at the shelter for women. The practical part contains stories (case studies) clients shelter for women who not only illustrate the combination of the various causes of loss of home and homelessness of these women, but also how to work with them through social work.

Un corpus de recherches en sciences sociales et en santé publique menées principalement en Amérique du Nord depuis les années 1980 montre que l'absence de logement personnel a un effet délétère sur l'état de santé, physique et psychique des familles sans logement. En France, les études quantitatives sur la santé des femmes sans-domicile restaient exceptionnelles avant la réalisation de l'enquête ENFAMS conduite en Ile-de-France en 2013. A partir des données de cette enquête, nous avons montré que, bien qu’elles soient plus jeunes que les femmes en population générale, la santé des femmes sans logement est plus mauvaise, en particulier en ce qui concerne leur santé mentale et leur santé nutritionnelle. Malgré un état de santé plus mauvais, les femmes sans logement ont moins recours aux soins que les femmes en population générale. Cette thèse a permis de souligner l’importance du suivi gynécologique dans l’accès au dépistage des cancers féminins puisque la proportion de femmes dépistées du cancer du col de l’utérus est deux fois plus élevée chez les femmes avec un suivi que chez celles sans suivi. Nous avons aussi montré que dans le contexte français d’une couverture maladie universelle et de l’existence de filets de protection sociale, nous ne retrouvons pas les associations classiquement observées entre renoncement aux soins et ressources financières ou assurance maladie. Les professionnels en soins primaires doivent s’appuyer sur les fenêtres d’opportunité de dépistage qu’offre chacun de leur contact avec les services de soins. Les stratégies d’amélioration à l’accès aux soins de ces femmes ne doivent pas seulement viser à lever les obstacles financiers. / Social sciences and public health research conducted mainly in North America, since the 1980s, have shown that homelessness has a significant impact on health, physical conditions and psychological health of families without housing. In France, quantitative studies on homeless women were scarce until the realization of the ENFAMS survey in Paris region in 2013.Based on data from this survey, we showed that, although younger than women in the general population, the health of homeless women is worse, especially with regards to their mental health and nutritional status. Despite their poor health, homeless women have less access to health care than women in the general population. Our research has highlighted the importance of gynecological follow-up in accessing women's cancer screening since the proportion of women who were screened for cervical cancer was twice as high among women with follow-up than among women without follow-up. We have also shown that in the French context of universal health coverage and numerous social safety nets, we do not find the classic associations between unmet health care needs and financial resources or health insurance status.Primary care professionals need to rely on windows of opportunity provided by each of their contact with health care services to make them benefit from cancer screening. Strategies to improve the access to health care of these women must not only aim to remove financial barriers.

The Master's Thesis examines the problematics of a loss of home percieved as crisis by women - clients of shelters. In its theoretical part mainly the findings of professional expertise and materials about homelessness and psychological crisis of loss were used to describe the phenomenon. It also contains a description of various forms of public services available to women who lost their homes as well as a brief introduction to women's shelters in Prague. Research itself was conducted using semi structured interviews with clients of three of Prague's shelters that offer accommodation services to three different target groups of women and forms the practical part of the thesis. The main aim of the research was to answer a question whether or not the clients of the shelters percieved the loss of their homes as crisis. Through several of the questions within the interview it was possible to achieve satisfactory results in providing the answers as well as in gaining some new perspectives on the above mentioned phenomenon as a whole. The research showed that the women who took part in the survey did indeed perceive the period of time when they lost their homes as crisis.

In April 2005, a group of women gathered for a human rights workshop at a Toronto drop-in centre for women experiencing homelessness, poverty, and isolation. One year later, the group sent a representative to address the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This dissertation describes and analyzes the feminist participatory action research-intervention project that began with the workshop and led to the United Nations. Over the course of 15 months, more than 50 participants attended weekly meetings at the drop-in. They learned about social and economic rights, testified about their experiences of human rights violations, and planned and undertook actions to respond to and resist homelessness. This thesis draws upon observations of meetings, documents produced by the group, and interviews with thirteen of the participants, in order to examine the project from a number of angles. First, the project suggests a new understanding of women’s homelessness: testimonies and interviews reveal that homelessness is not only a material state, but more importantly a social process of disenfranchisement enacted through relations of harm, threat, control, surveillance, precarity and dehumanization. Understanding homelessness as a social process enables an analysis of its operations within and for a dominant social and economic order structured by colonization and neoliberal globalization. Secondly, the thesis takes up participants’ assessments of the project’s political effectiveness and its impacts on their well-being and empowerment, and reads these against the researcher’s experiences with the project, in order to explore how feminist participatory methodologies can contribute to resistance. Finally, the thesis concludes with recommendations for theory, research, service provision, and human rights advocacy on women’s homelessness.

In April 2005, a group of women gathered for a human rights workshop at a Toronto drop-in centre for women experiencing homelessness, poverty, and isolation. One year later, the group sent a representative to address the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This dissertation describes and analyzes the feminist participatory action research-intervention project that began with the workshop and led to the United Nations. Over the course of 15 months, more than 50 participants attended weekly meetings at the drop-in. They learned about social and economic rights, testified about their experiences of human rights violations, and planned and undertook actions to respond to and resist homelessness. This thesis draws upon observations of meetings, documents produced by the group, and interviews with thirteen of the participants, in order to examine the project from a number of angles. First, the project suggests a new understanding of women’s homelessness: testimonies and interviews reveal that homelessness is not only a material state, but more importantly a social process of disenfranchisement enacted through relations of harm, threat, control, surveillance, precarity and dehumanization. Understanding homelessness as a social process enables an analysis of its operations within and for a dominant social and economic order structured by colonization and neoliberal globalization. Secondly, the thesis takes up participants’ assessments of the project’s political effectiveness and its impacts on their well-being and empowerment, and reads these against the researcher’s experiences with the project, in order to explore how feminist participatory methodologies can contribute to resistance. Finally, the thesis concludes with recommendations for theory, research, service provision, and human rights advocacy on women’s homelessness.