Journal Articles
- Research
Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Australia that explored women’s experiences of homelessness and pregnancy, this article discusses how mothering subjectivities are generated through constructed notions of the ‘good’ mother and the barriers mothers face in both enacting these discourses and in meeting the high moral standards of ‘good’ mothering without adequate resources and structural supports.
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This article illustrates several state ordinances criminalizing the homeless population’s use of encampments and proposes an international framework within an Eighth Amendment analysis
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By considering the use of hotels in the UK and Australia, we argue that the hotel is a durable and vitally important site of bordering, one that manifests many of the tensions and contradictions of state responses to asylum seekers and refugees.
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This article reveals competing representations of DFV-related housing precarity between housing and criminal justice policies, producing uneven effects for DFV victim-survivors.
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Little research compares the financial costs of alternative and traditional shelter models. The research team analyzed cost data for 13 alternative shelters and nine traditional congregate shelters in Portland, Oregon.
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This paper considers selected research that has suggested why social work as a profession is undervalued in the disaster sector, and reflects on what a social work enhanced disaster sector in Australia could look like.
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This study investigates the lessons learned from adapting the social accelerator model to address community-level trauma and build resilience in a rural setting.
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In this study, we show how the City of Toronto’s data practices offer standardized processes for client care, but frontline workers also engage in heuristic decision-making in their work to navigate uncertainties, client resistance to sharing information, and resource constraints.
