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Nomadism and homelessness with emphasis on the visual features of Islamic mystics' homes [PDF]

open access: yesهنر اسلامی, 2022
The issue of human homelessness is an important issue in mysticism. The most important problem of the mystic man is to move away from the original homeland, and his effort to return to the era of carpentry is the subject of all mystical books. Because of
Solmaz Razzaghzadeh Shabestari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Governing Through Definitions and Numbers: Analysis of the Nordic Homeless Registrations as Instruments of Governing Homelessness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The four Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, have for many years carried out periodic national surveys of homelessness. These surveys constitute time series, which make it possible to follow the development of the number of persons ...
Benjaminsen, Lars   +3 more
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Homelessness and health [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2007
Homelessness is evolving into a national and international crisis. Within developed countries, homeless rates are now believed to approximate 1% of most urban populations.[1][1] In the 2001 Canadian census, 14 145 people were counted as living in a shelter.
Jeffrey, Turnbull   +2 more
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Conceptualizing Homeless Exits and Returns: The Case for a Multidimensional Response to Episodic Homelessness

open access: yesCritical Social Work, 2005
Research indicates that homelessness is dynamic and that a significant number of homeless people have experienced multiple episodes of homelessness. This episodic nature of homelessness implies that the issue for such people is not only getting housing ...
Uzo Anucha
doaj   +1 more source

Mental Readiness for Frontline Workers in Homelessness Services in Ottawa, Canada

open access: yesInternational Journal on Homelessness, 2021
This study investigated factors related to competency by assessing the mental readiness among highly recognized frontline workers in homelessness services (FWHSs) by means of self-completed questionnaires.
Judy McDonald, Katherine Hale
doaj   +1 more source

THE ASPECTS OF HOMELESSNESS IN THE EXPERIENCES OF FORMER PRISONERS STAYING IN POST-PENITENTIARY AID CENTRES [PDF]

open access: yesProbacja
Homelessness is one of the experiences of people with criminal records and its scale is not precisely known. The concept of homelessness and its selected dimensions were explained, as well as the risk factors for homelessness among prisoners and former ...
Katarzyna Lenart-Kłoś
doaj   +1 more source

Who’s Homeless and Whose Homeless?

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2020
What does the persistent construction of ‘the homeless’ and the revitalised term ‘our homeless’ include, imply, and exclude in Swedish political debate? And how is it politically and morally related to other houseless groups in the country? These questions are approached through an analysis of minutes from the Swedish Parliament 2015–2019.
openaire   +5 more sources

Teaching compassion through a community-led, experiential learning activity for undergraduate medical students: the Empathy Project

open access: yesCanadian Medical Education Journal
We co-facilitated a mandatory community-led experiential learning activity for medical students with the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa that demonstrates the feasibility and positive impact of incorporating community-led learning into the medical ...
Lina Shoppoff   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Causes of women’s homelessness in Ukraine

open access: yesНаукові Записки Наукма: Соціологія, 2018
This paper investigates the specific aspects of women’s homelessness in the big cities of Ukraine. Men prevail among the street homeless people, and homeless people are often seen as male.
Daria Popova
doaj   +1 more source

Pathways into multiple exclusion homelessness in seven UK cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper interrogates pathways into multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) in the UK and, informed by a critical realist theoretical framework, explores the potential causal processes underlying these pathways.
Johnsen, Sarah   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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