The work deals with the issue of homelessness. It maps the root causes which affects people who find themselves in a situation where they lose their home, their family. It describes aspects that make life difficult for homeless people and what mechanisms they use to deal with them. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the issue of homelessness in historical view, causes and prevention. Brings an overview of organizations that helps and possible alternative ways to help. It maps the share of the Municipal Police in Pilsen, specifically the Territorial Guard Service Station, which was directly established to monitor and control socially excluded persons in the city. The practical part deals with the views of homeless people on their current situations, their visions of the future and concrete options of dealing with difficult situations. Research that mostly focuse on quality with quantitative elements was realized on the basis of guided interviews and non- participatory observation, connected with the stay in the terrain.

Hostile architecture is a medium through which social exclusion is enacted in the public and common areas of our cities. By limiting who is allowed to occupy space, and how they may do so, it functions to define the contours of inclusion in urban space-- all of which is predicated on one’s engagement with the zones of consumerism that have overtaken the cities’ commons. As a result, those without the means to partake are pushed aside, despite the inner-cities’ historical relationships with the poor, unhoused, and marginalized. The purpose of this study is to explore how lived experiences and knowledge of discriminatory architecture can inform a sociological analysis of hostile architecture. By exploring hostile architecture in Calgary, this thesis addresses a specific question: How do people with lived experience of homelessness understand hostile architecture? Through Community-Based Participatory Research and Photovoice, this question is addressed through collaboration with community members with lived experience of homelessness. Collectively, we conclude that those with lived experiences of homelessness understand hostile architecture in a multitude of ways. Amongst these understandings is the notion that hostile architecture not only excludes and displaces the unhoused and marginalized, but that it is also part and parcel of the wider range of hostilities against those experiencing homeless. One key theoretical concept grounds the research. Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Right to the City’ is used as a starting point in discussing what an equitable city might look like. I maintain that the lived experiences and knowledge held by those with experiences of homelessness can sensitize the public, and inform regional and national policymakers about this exclusionary mechanism. / Graduate

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Bakgrund Uppskattningsvis 100 miljoner människor världen över lever i hemlöshet och orsakerna ärindividuella, komplexa och multifaktoriella. Att vara hemlös förknippas med ett försämrathälsotillstånd, såväl psykiskt som fysiskt, och likaså en överdödlighet i jämförelse medövriga befolkningen. Många hemlösa undviker att söka vård, eller väntar tills symtomenhar blivit så pass allvarliga att de behöver uppsöka akutsjukvård. Förhoppningen meddenna litteraturöversikt är därför att bidra med kunskap om hur hemlösa ska bemötas. Syfte Att beskriva hemlösas erfarenheter och upplevelser av hälso- och sjukvården. Metod En icke-systematisk litteraturöversikt utfördes och baserades på 15 vetenskapligaoriginalartiklar med kvalitativ metodansats. Inkluderade artiklar inhämtades fråndatabaserna PubMed och CINAHL. Artikelsökningarna utfördes med hjälp av sökord somtagits fram utifrån föreliggande syfte och därefter tillämpades avgränsningar. Artiklarnakvalitetsgranskades utifrån Sophiahemmet Högskolas bedömningsunderlag och derasresultat analyserades med en integrerad dataanalys. Resultat Den integrerade analysen av artiklarnas resultat gav upphov till två huvudkategorier:Bemötande och praktiska svårigheter att erhålla vård. Centrala fynd var hemlösasbeskrivna upplevelser av diskriminering i vården samt vikten av ett värdigt och flexibeltbemötande. Hemlösa uttryckte även praktiska svårigheter i vårdsökandet, både påindividnivå samt på samhälls- och organisationsnivå. Slutsats Vårdpersonals nedvärderande och dömande bemötande beskrevs som diskriminerande ochhämmade hemlösas vårdsökande. Däremot angavs relationen främjas då hemlösainvolverades i sin egen vård, och då vårdpersonalen var flexibel och lyssnade aktivt. För attförse hemlösa med adekvat vård krävs kunskap om deras upplevelser av hälso- ochsjukvården. / Background Approximately 100 million people are homeless worldwide and the causes are individual, complex, and multifactorial. Homelessness is associated with poor physical and mental health. In addition, the mortality rate among homeless people is elevated compared to the rest of the population. Many homeless people avoid seeking medical care or wait until symptoms are severe enough to require emergency medical care. The hope with this review is therefore to contribute with knowledge about how homeless people should be cared for. Aim The aim of this study was to describe homeless people's experiences with health care. Method A non-systematic literature review, based on 15 scientific qualitative articles, was conducted. The articles were obtained from PubMed and CINAHL databases. The searches were performed using keywords developed based on the aim of the study. The quality of the articles was checked using Sophiahemmet University assessment basis. The articles’ results were subjected to integrated data analysis. Results The integrated analysis of the articles’ results gave rise to two main categories: Experiences of patient-healthcare provider encounters and practical difficulties in obtaining care. Central findings were homeless peoples’ described experiences of discrimination in care and the importance of dignified and flexible treatment. The homeless also expressed practical difficulties in seeking care, both at the individual level as well as at the societal and organizational level. Conclusions Attitudes from healthcare staff that were demeaning and judgmental were described as discriminatory and as a barrier to homeless people seeking care. On the other hand, it was stated that the relationship was promoted when the homeless were involved in their own care, and when the health care staff were flexible and listened actively. In order to provide the homeless with adequate care, knowledge of their experiences of health care is required.

Motel life has existed in the United States for over 100 years. However, it was not until the HEARTH Act in 2009 changed the federal definition of homelessness that those who live in motels more or less permanently were considered homeless persons. This project utilizes qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 18 families with children who are living in motels to explore their experiences with motel life and social service providers, their housing identity, and identity management strategies. Findings show that most of the motel residents did not identify with the conventional definition or image of homelessness and instead negotiated the term to fit their situation. Although they did not initially self-identify as homeless, when discussing policy recommendations all participants adopted a homeless social-identity (i.e., they identified as members of the homeless social category). As members of the homeless community, the participants agreed that homeless families in the area needed more attention and assistance. Participants were aware that outsiders would view them as homeless and during their interviews several identity management strategies were used. Motel residents described a hierarchy of homelessness and placed themselves at the top of it, perceiving themselves to be better people than even other motel residents. The identity management strategies employed by the participants were meant to show how they were good people who were just stuck in a motel because of circumstances outside of their control and how they were deserving of assistance to help their families move out of the motel and obtain adequate, permanent housing.

Homeless women and families are among the most disenfranchised groups in society. Further, because of their homelessness and associated problems, many homeless women become separated from their children. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects on predictors of entering a shelter with or without children (shelter status) and whether or not one is separated from one or more children (child separation status) on various special need predictors. A second objective was to determine the relationship between shelter status and child separation and to understand the unique experiences of homeless women who are separated from their children. These objectives were achieved via thematic analysis, quantitative methods and qualitative methods. Results suggest that shelter status significantly related to mental illness, drug abuse and domestic violence, but child separation status only significantly relates to drug abuse. The qualitative findings examined the origins of homelessness, child separation and the women's desires to be reunited with their children. Suggestions for further research and program changes are included.

This thesis explores the home as a foreign place in the three films The Foster Boy (Der Verdingbub, Markus Imboden, 2011), Undine (Undine, Christian Petzold, 2020) and Synonyms (Synonymes, Nadav Lapid, 2019). The theoretical framework draws on the concepts of Heimat and home as well as on aspects of diaspora, exile and nomadism, which are combined in a conceptualisation to which I refer to as ‘the foreign home’. Relevant literary sources are Hamid Naficy, David Morley, Peter Blickle and others. The film analysis discusses how the foreign home is narrated and expressed on the narrative itself as well as on the stylistic and aesthetic level. The discussion of the foreign home occurs in reference to an underlying storytelling structure in which the home and the non-home become one place, the foreign home. The underlying storytelling structure entails five different sections that reveal the foreign home and its gradual development. These sections are: leaving home and moving on, the space and the objects of the new home, modes of displacement, adjustment to the new home, and hostility and opposition in the new home. The analysis is conducted based on these sections. This research contributes to the study of home in film and focuses especially on the opposite relationship of the home as a foreign place in film.

Bakgrund: Hemlöshet är ett utbrett globalt problem. I Sverige lever cirka 33 000 personer i någon form av hemlöshet. Personer i hemlöshet har ofta både fysisk och psykisk ohälsa förutom multipla sociala besvär. För att personer i hemlöshet, med komplexa behov, ska få adekvata insatser gällande vård-och omsorgsinsatser behövs individuella åtgärder och samverkan mellan olika instanser. Ledorden för Agenda 2030 understryker att ingen ska lämnas utanför och möjlighet till hälsa och tillgång till vård ska ses som mänskliga rättigheter. Samtidigt undviker personer i hemlöshet att söka vård i större utsträckning än andra. Att vård- och omsorgsinsatser samordnas och organiseras så att de används och uppskattas av personer som lever i hemlöshet är en förutsättning för att nå ambitionen om jämlik vård. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva vilka erfarenheter personer som lever i hemlöshet har kring samverkan av vård- och omsorgsinsatser.   Metod: En litteraturöversikt vars resultat grundas på tio vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultat: Resultat presenteras i två kategorier; Brister i planering, samverkan och utskrivning och Behov att skapa tillgänglig kontinuerlig och individanpassad vård. Det framkom att de hinder som fanns för att personer i hemlöshet skulle söka vård reducerades genom uppsökande verksamhet och samverkan vilket gav tillgång och kontinuitet i vård- och omsorgsinsatser. Med hjälp av vårdsamordnare kunde förtroendefulla vårdrelationer formas där komplexa behov tillgodosågs.  Sammanfattning: Personer som lever i hemlöshet upplever bristande tillgång till vård och stöd de är i behov av. Bristande kommunikation mellan huvudmän leder till att personer i hemlöshet känner sig negligerade. Ansvar läggs idag på att personer i hemlöshet själva ska navigera i svårtolkade strukturella system. Vårdsamordnare behövs för att kunna främja vårdkontinuitet. Personcentrerade insatser behövs för att tillgodose behov hos personer som lever i hemlöshet. / Background: Homelessness is a widespread global problem. In Sweden, approximately 33,000 people live in some form of homelessness. People in homelessness often have both physical and mental illnesses in addition to multiple social struggles. In order for homeless people with complex needs to receive adequate care and care interventions, individual measures and cooperation between different agencies are needed. The guiding word for Agenda 2030 emphasize that no one should be left out and the opportunity for good health and access to care should be seen as human rights. At the same time, people in homelessness avoid seeking care to a greater extent than others. That care and care interventions are coordinated and organized so that they are used and appreciated by people living in homelessness is a prerequisite for achieving the ambition of equal care. Aim: The aim was to describe the experiences people who live in homelessness have regarding health and welfare interventions.  Method: A literature review based on ten scientific articles. Results: The results are presented in two categories; Deficiencies in planning, collaboration and discharge and the need to create accessible continuous and individually tailored care. The results showed that the obstacles that existed for homeless people to seek care were reduced with the help of outreach services and cooperation. This gave homeless people access and continuity of care and social care efforts. Through a care coordinator, trusting care relationships could be formed where complex needs were met.  Summary: People living in homelessness feel that they do not receive the care and support they need. Lack of communication between organizers leaves people experiencing homelessness feeling neglected. Today, responsibility is placed on people living in homelessness to navigate difficult-to-interpret structural systems themselves. Care coordinators are needed in order to promote continuity of care. Person-centered interventions are needed to meet the needs of people living in homelessness.

This thesis inquires into the transformative potentials and possibilities of attending specifically to matters of occupation, settlement and development for rearticulating discourses and knowledge relations on homelessness to undermine the projects of separation of land from body. Through an historiographical analysis applied to the National Housing Strategy (NHS), Reaching Home (RH), and Housing First (HF), as contemporary Canadian iterations of housing and homelessness policy and practice, this work critically examines representations, attentions, and omissions to understand, engage, and intervene on considerations of the common projects that constitute discourses on homelessness. This analysis found that contemporary understandings communicate and define the homeless body as an identity of lack, novel to the neoliberal contemporary that omit attentions to homelessness as a colonial capitalist process implicated in ongoing, relational, and severed histories of violence. This work also revealed that NHS, RH, and HF operationalize solutions to ending homelessness through abstracted/eugenic ‘expert’ medicalized, liberalized, and market-based systems/taxonomies of worth that reify/silo/silence/erase knowledges through and by embodied projects and discourses of ‘rights’, justice, care, and help. While NHS, RH, and HF claim ‘housing as a right’ and advocate deinstitutionalization via a discourse of ‘choice’ in a market system, this work revealed these discourses to be part of a redeveloped economic institutionalized politics severed, rearticulated, and managed in the social sphere. These findings are considered as a violence of Land/Body bifurcation possible through and by the imposition of claims on body and land in the creation and maintenance of ideal citizen subjects as settlement subjectivities becoming self-determined rights holders, consumers, tenants, and citizen placeholders in a commodified market for home. Overall, this project aims to contribute to a resistance of the severing violence of occupation, settlement, and development through an ontology of Land/Body simultaneity offering possibilities for transformational intervention into the context from which the ideas of homeless bodies and landscapes emerge. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)

Bakgrund: Hemlöshet är ett globalt problem med över 1,6 miljarder drabbade. Orsakerna är komplexa, inkluderande fattigdom, missbruk och psykisk ohälsa. I Sverige finns ca 33 000 hemlösa. Definitionen av hemlöshet varierar internationellt, men den inkluderar inte bara avsaknad av tak över huvudet, utan även social isolering. Hemlösa har sämre fysisk och psykisk hälsa än icke-hemlösa, och sjuksköterskor som vårdar dem står inför komplexa hälsoutmaningar. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva upplevelser av hälso- och sjukvård i öppenvården hos personer som lever i hemlöshet.  Metod En allmän litteraturöversikt av tio vetenskapliga originalartiklar genomfördes.  Resultat Tre teman framkom av litteraturöversikten: Upplevelser av tillgängligheten, upplevelser av bemötande samt upplevelser av samorganisation och kommunikation. Slutsats Personer i hemlöshet stöter på hinder när de söker till hälso- och sjukvård, inklusive avstånd, identifieringskrav, adressbehov, ekonomiska hinder, negativ vårdpersonal och komplexa system. Detta skapar känslor av otillgänglighet och frustration. Stigmatisering av hemlösa av vårdpersonal leder till felbehandling och avskräcker från vård. Specialiserade tjänster som uppsökande vård och hemlösa vårdcentraler förbättrar tillgången och resulterar i bättre hälsa för denna grupp. / Background: Homelessness is a global issue affecting over 1.6 billion people. The causes are complex, including poverty, substance abuse, and mental health issues. In Sweden, there are approximately 33,000 homeless individuals. The definition of homelessness varies internationally, but it encompasses not only a lack of shelter but also social isolation. Homeless individuals have worse physical and mental health than non-homeless individuals, and nurses providing care to them face complex health challenges. Aim: The aim was to describe experiences of open healthcare among individuals experiencing homelessness. Method: A general literature review of ten scientific original articles was conducted. Results: Three themes emerged from the literature review: Experiences of accessibility, experiences of interaction, and experiences of co-organization and communication. Conclusions: Individuals experiencing homelessness encounter barriers when seeking healthcare, including distance, identification requirements, address prerequisites, financial obstacles, negative healthcare staff attitudes, and complex systems. This fosters feelings of inaccessibility and frustration. Stigmatization of homeless individuals by healthcare personnel leads to misdiagnosis and discourages seeking care. Specialized services such as outreach healthcare and homeless healthcare centers enhance access and result in improved health for this group.