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Dej, Erin

 
9780774865111: A Complex Exile: Homelessness and Social Exclusion in Canada
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ISBN 10: 0774865113 ISBN 13: 9780774865111
Editorial: University of British Columbia Press, 2020

Sinopsis

Over 235,000 people couch-surf, stay in emergency shelters, or live on the street in Canada every year. But lack of housing security is just one barrier faced by people who are homeless. As A Complex Exile shows, the homelessness sector inadvertently reinforces social exclusion as well. The very policies, practices, and funding models that exist to house the homeless, promote social inclusion, and provide mental health care form a homelessness industrial complex. These practices emphasize personal responsibility and individualized responses that ultimately serve to exclude people in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Erin Dej demonstrates that the causes of, and responses to, homelessness have become largely medicalized, limiting discussion on structural and systemic drivers such as income inequality, discrimination, and housing affordability. A Complex Exile goes beyond bio-medical and psychological perspectives on homelessness, mental illness, and addiction to call for a transformation in how we respond to homelessness in Canada.

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Acerca del autor

Erin Dej is an assistant professor of criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, where she co-authored A New Direction: A Framework for Homelessness Prevention with Stephen Gaetz, and she is the co-editor of Containing Madness: Gender and 'Psy' in Institutional Contexts with Jennifer M. Kilty.

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Editorial
University of British Columbia Press
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0774865113
ISBN 13 
9780774865111
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
254
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