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"Tale ricerca ha come scopo l'analisi delle condizioni di vita dei giovani caratterizzati da una condizione di disagio o di esclusione abitativa. In particolare sono stati analizzati i rischi di povertà e i fattori di vulnerabilità sociale dei giovani, derivanti soprattutto dai processi di precarizzazione, esacerbati dalla crisi del 2008-2014. Lo studio si propone di costruire delle traiettorie idealtipiche di impoverimento, ponendo a confronto un gruppo di giovani italiani con quello di giovani migranti senza fissa dimora o a rischio di homelessness nella città di Napoli. La scelta di analizzare l'homelessness giovanile deriva dall'esigenza di ricondurre il tema dell'estensione dell'area del disagio o dell'esclusione abitativa alla complessità dei nessi esistenti tra processi di vulnerabilità, precarizzazione ed impoverimento. La ricerca sul campo si è avvalsa dell'"approccio biografico" quale metodo di indagine e dei "racconti di vita" come strumento di rilevazione."

"Five million U.S. workers are exposed to TB in the course of their work each year. The occupational risk of exposure to TB at homeless shelters is particularly acute. TB rates among the homeless are estimated to be 150 to 300 times the nationwide rate. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) responded to the risk to homeless shelter workers by proposing a regulation mandating that shelters take prescribed actions to identify shelter residents who represent a potential risk and to remove those residents from the homeless shelter environment. This article concludes that the risk of TB exposure within homeless shelter workers is best viewed as a public health problem rather than as exclusively a worker protection problem. "

"Recent controversies have drawn attention to the growing day labor industry in the U.S. While academics and activists have documented and criticized day labor agencies' practice of externalizing costs onto the workforce, less attention has been paid to the informal organization of this form of work. At first glance, the day labor industry may appear to be little more than an anonymous "spot market," but this glosses over the subtle relational and reputational dynamics at play. This article uses qualitative and quantitative evidence to uncover the informal order of the day labor hall, as experienced by homeless workers. Dispatcher discretion over the allocation of jobs leads day laborers to adopt several strategies for combating anonymity in this market. We argue that dispatchers' perceptions of workers' loyalty and reliability shape the allocation of rewards, thus inserting a small measure of stability into this highly contingent form of work."

"Au Japon, la question de la pauvreté s'est progressivement imposée comme une question sociale majeure et, consécutivement, l'actualité du mouvement contre la pauvreté, dans ses actions et ses acteurs, est présentée minutieusement par la presse au détriment, sinon à la méconnaissance, de ses origines qui demeurent encore faiblement analysées. À travers le cas de la Shinjuku Renraku Kai (SRK), une des premières organisations de soutien aux sans-abri, l'objectif de cet article est d'analyser les conditions et les contraintes à la fondation de ce mouvement aujourd'hui mature. Le cas japonais vient confirmer que l'action collective des plus pauvres est particulièrement dépendante de soutiens extérieurs. Une particularité cependant : ces soutiens, jusqu'alors mobilisés sur d'autres terrains, s'intéressent, pour la première fois, à la cause des sans-abri, ce qui permet de s'interroger sur les conditions de conversion de ces militants, une perspective de recherche encore rarement évoquée."

"L'errance dans la rue et ses prolongements (les accueils d'urgence et de stabilisation) sont-ils un nouveau paradigme de l'anormalité ? La souffrance psychique quitte sa dimension humaine pour être l'objet d'une traque biopolitique, qui, mobilisant professionnels de différents champs du social et du sanitaire, entraîne la multiplication des dispositifs médico-administratifs à l'économie gestionnaire. Cet ouvrage tente de porter un regard positif sur le " prendre soin " collectif, l'écoute de la précarité et l'élaboration de voies de sortie de la rue qui ne sauraient être seulement psychiatriques. Au maintien et à l'extension de rapports de domination généralisés, en particulier les violences faites aux femmes, il oppose des pratiques cliniques qui reconnaissent les sujets humains en situation d'exclusion et de précarité comme créateurs et non uniquement victimes de leur destin. L'auteur interroge les rapports entre trauma et souffrance psychique, la place du soin psychiatrique dans cette question sociale, les impasses du paravent humanitaire et des politiques de santé mentale et de logement social face aux situations d'exclusion, mais aussi les pratiques juridiques et législatives d'inscription dans la précarité. Il s'agit là pour lui d'un enjeu historique, considéré comme " utopie concrète ", d'une société véritablement démocratique. Jean-Pierre Martin est psychiatre de service public, chef de service d'un secteur du centre de Paris."

"Background: This study examined the association between immigrant status and current health in a representative sample of 1189 homeless people in Toronto, Canada. Methods: Multivariate regression analyses were performed to examine the relationship between immigrant status and current health status (assessed using the SF-12) among homeless recent immigrants (=10 years since immigration), non-recent immigrants (>10 years since immigration) and Canadian-born individuals recruited at shelters and meal programmes (response rate 73%). Results: After adjusting for demographic characteristics and lifetime duration of homelessness, recent immigrants were significantly less likely to have chronic conditions (RR 0.7, 95% CI 0.5 to 0.9), mental health problems (OR 0.4, 95% CI 0.2 to 0.7), alcohol problems (OR 0.2, 95% CI 0.1 to 0.5) and drug problems (OR 0.2, 95% CI 0.1 to 0.4) than non-recent immigrants and Canadian-born individuals. Recent immigrants were also more likely to have better mental health status (+3.4 points, SE ±1.6) and physical health status (+2.2 points, SE ±1.3) on scales with a mean of 50 and a SD of 10 in the general population. Conclusion: Homeless recent immigrants are a distinct group who are generally healthier and may have very different service needs from other homeless people."