Doctoral Dissertation Research: Youth Homelessness: Street Kids in the Urban South

博士论文研究：青少年无家可归：南方城市的街头儿童

• 批准号: 1636536
• 负责人: Debra Umberson
• 金额: $ 0.98万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1636536&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Youth; Homelessness

Youth Homelessness: Street Kids in the Urban SouthLGBTQ youth are estimated to make up at least 40 percent of the youth homeless population in the United States, despite being only about 5-8 percent of the U.S. youth population. In conducting interviews and ethnographic field research, this study examines how LGBTQ become homeless, their specific needs, and their interactions with other people as being both LGBTQ and homeless. Through uncovering the day-to-day experiences and distinct issues affecting LGBTQ homeless youth, this project will examine how gender and sexuality within the contexts of poverty affect how young people become and experience homelessness. This research also adds a new spatial context - the urban South - to the literature on LGBTQ people more generally. The "new homelessness" is a visible marker of the poverty and growing income inequality that has followed the neoliberal economic re-structuring of society. Little research examines how larger social forces that marginalize LGBTQ people may also contribute to the new homelessness, in particular, the new youth homelessness. This gap is especially critical because LGBTQ homeless youth disproportionately make up the youth homeless population in the United States. In conducting ethnographic fieldwork at a homeless youth drop-in center and at a LGBTQ youth homeless shelter, this study asks about the particular processes associated with youth homelessness, gender, and sexuality today. Compared to the Northeast, West coast, and Midwest where most studies on LGBTQ life take place, this study occurs in a Southern state where there are less favorable views of LGBTQ civil rights, and a lack of protections for LGBTQ people in the workplace, in housing, or in other accommodations. This lack of support for LGBTQ and low-income people provides an under-examined, social and economic climate in which to study youth homelessness, gender and sexuality in the urban South.

青年无家可归者：据估计，尽管美国青年人口的5-8％约占5-8％，但据估计，据估计，在美国，至少有40％的青年无家可归者人口。在进行访谈和民族志研究研究时，本研究研究了LGBTQ如何变得无家可归，他们的特定需求以及与其他人的互动是LGBTQ且无家可归。通过发现日常的经历和影响LGBTQ无家可归青年的不同问题，该项目将研究贫困背景下的性别和性别如何影响年轻人的变得无家可归。这项研究还增加了有关LGBTQ人士的文献。 “新无家可归者”是贫穷和收入不平等的可见标志，遵循了社会的新自由主义经济重建。很少的研究研究了将LGBTQ人士边缘化的更大的社会力量也可能导致新的无家可归者，特别是新的青年无家可归者。这一差距尤其重要，因为LGBTQ无家可归的青年不成比例地构成了美国青年无家可归的人口。本研究在一个无家可归的青年中心和LGBTQ青年无家可归者收容所进行民族志实地调查时，询问了与青年无家可归，性别和性行为有关的特定过程。与东北，西海岸和中西部相比，大多数关于LGBTQ生活的研究都发生在南部州，在南部州，对LGBTQ公民权利的看法较低，并且缺乏对工作场所，住房或其他住宿中LGBTQ人的保护。这种对LGBTQ和低收入人士的支持缺乏支持，提供了一种经过深思熟虑，社会和经济的氛围，可以在南部研究青年无家可归，性别和性行为。