The High Price of Gender Noncompliance: Exploring the Economic Marginality of Trans Women in South Africa by Siyanda Buyile Shabalala, Megan Campbell

“…This structural economic bias is reflected in four key areas: (a) patriarchal family systems enforce conformity to cisgender expectations through abuse, financial neglect, and rejection, displacing trans women into precarious circumstances, including homelessness and survival sex work; (b) cisnormative workplace conventions demand legal gender alignment as a precondition for organizational access and employability, shutting out trans identities lacking state recognition of their gender; (c) institutionally entrenched anti‐trans stigma creates heightened scrutiny and discrimination during hiring processes; and (d) a gender‐segregated labor system undermines trans women’s ability to participate in both “male” and “female” jobs due to nonadherence to traditional, biologically defined gender roles. …”
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Navigating urban poverty: The role of livelihood capital in the livelihood strategies of urban beggars in Indonesia by Choirul Amin, Wahyu Tyas Pramono, Jumadi Jumadi, Dewi Novita Sari, Maxim G.M. Samson

“…The global challenges of urban poverty and homelessness are widely considered among the most critical, with beggars usually symbolizing visible and marginalized groups of the urban poor. …”
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IMPACT OF FLOODING ON HUMAN SECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by DUBE PHILEMON ABRAK, ADELAKUN RASHEED ADEYINKA, ISHAKU AISHA YUSUF, UBON UDOH HUMAPWA, MUKHTAR BELLO MUHAMMAD, CHUKWUEDO N. HENRY, OGBUKE KINGSLEY NNAMDI

“…It also causes internal displacement, homelessness, economic hardship, psychological violence, and flooding affects agricultural productivity, destroying crops and farmland, which threatens food security. …”
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Work-related grief and bereavement experiences of social and community service workers working with people experiencing social disadvantage: a rapid scoping review by Kara Whitlock, Zahra Premji, Ashley Mollison, Carolina Posada, Mauricio Arias-Rojas, Charlotte Futcher, Kelli I. Stajduhar

“…Research shows that in contexts of social disadvantage(e.g., homelessness and poverty, mental health and substance use concerns, racism and discrimination), social and community workers can become ‘defacto’ family and provide caregiving support at the end of life. …”
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Hooliganism as a problem of public order in the Ukrainian SSR in the early 1950s by V. A. Grechenko

“…The incompletely formed character and marginality inherent in young people generally played a negative role in their development as positive individuals. Homelessness and neglect of children and adolescents played a detrimental role in the escalation of hooliganism in the 1950s. …”
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Health Disparities in Rheumatology in the United States by Wright GC, Zueger PM, Copley-Merriman C, Khan S, Costello J, Krumbach A, Reddy P, Tanjinatus O, Wells AF

“…Existing disparities in care access, quality of care received, and treatment outcomes among patients with rheumatic disease are not well understood.Methods: We conducted a targeted literature review to understand disparities in health outcomes, treatment patterns, and healthcare management faced by rheumatology patients in the United States, with a focus on rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and ankylosing spondylitis (AS).Results: The findings of this review indicate that disparities in RA, PsA, and AS affect several historically underserved populations, including underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, persons with lower socioeconomic status (SES), persons experiencing homelessness, and patients with Medicare or Medicaid insurance types. …”
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Genotyped cluster investigations versus standard contact tracing: comparative impact on latent tuberculosis infection cascade of care in a low-incidence region by Michael Asare-Baah, Marie Nancy Séraphin, LaTweika A.T. Salmon-Trejo, Lori Johnston, Lina Dominique, David Ashkin, Krishna Vaddiparti, Awewura Kwara, Anthony T. Maurelli, Michael Lauzardo

“…-born, Asians, residents of long-term care or correctional facilities, with past year histories of alcohol use, homelessness, and drug use. Conclusion Despite the demographic and epidemiological differences between cases and controls, cluster investigations identified more contacts, with no significant difference in contacts diagnosed with LTBI, but were less effective than standard contact investigations in evaluating contacts, initiating LTBI treatment, and ensuring completion.…”
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Factors affecting implementation of interventions for oral health, substance use, smoking and diet for people with severe and multiple disadvantage: a community-based qualitative s... by Sheena E Ramsay, Richard G Watt, Falko F Sniehotta, Eileen Kaner, Martha Paisi, Neha Jain, Martin Burrows, Emma A Adams, Gillian McLellan, Emma C Joyes, Laura J McGowan, David Landes, Lorenzo Iafrate

“…Background Populations facing severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD), co-occurring homelessness, substance use and repeat offending have high levels of physical and mental ill-health. …”
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Developing a comprehensive inventory to define harm reduction housing by Sofia Zaragoza, Joseph Silcox, Sabrina Rapisarda, Charlie Summers, Patricia Case, Clara To, Avik Chatterjee, Alexander Y. Walley, Miriam Komaromy, Traci C Green

“…Abstract Background The City of Boston has faced unprecedented challenges with substance use amidst changes to the illicit drug supply and increased visibility of homelessness. Among its responses, Boston developed six low threshold harm reduction housing (HRH) sites geared towards supporting the housing needs of people who use drugs (PWUD) and addressing health and safety concerns around geographically concentrated tent encampments. …”
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Stigma and fear during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study on the perceptions of healthcare workers in Canada and Singapore by Christine Fahim, Christine Fahim, Chou Chuen Yu, Jeanette Cooper, Suvabna Theivendrampillai, Taehoon (Tom) Lee, Michelle Wai-Ki Lau, Christine Marquez, Bernard Tang, Mathews Mathew, Malika Sharma, Malika Sharma, Eric Wong, Eric Wong, Tracey O'Sullivan, James Alvin Low, James Alvin Low, Sharon E. Straus, Sharon E. Straus

“…In Singapore, this included Chinese tourists and migrant workers and in Canada, this included people of Chinese ethnicity and people experiencing homelessness. This stigma was often attributed to pre-existing prejudices including perceptions that these populations were at increased risk of COVID-19 or not adhering to public health recommendations. …”
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Editorial by Lindsay B. Flynn

“…The approach considers the specific needs of young people shut out of housing markets, young people who may be experiencing severe housing insecurity or homelessness, and the spatial dimension of such challenges. …”
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IGJR 1/2020: Housing crisis: How can we improve the situation for young people? by IF and FRFG

“…• What is the potential of new forms of housing, such as shared housing, multi-generational housing, homeshare (housing for help)? • How does homelessness affect young people in particular and how can it be combated? …”
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IGJR 1/2020: Housing crisis: How can we improve the situation for young people? by IF and FRFG

“…What is the potential of new forms of housing, such as shared housing, multi-generational housing, homeshare (housing for help)? • How does homelessness affect young people in particular and how can it be combated? …”
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Notices bibliographiques

“…Pour les SDF (sans abri), l’interrogation a été faite sur les années 2000 à 2007 avec le descripteur « homeless ».…”
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La junte militaire birmane confrontée au Cyclone Nargis by Marion Sabrié

“…On the 2nd and the 3rd of May 2008, the Cyclonic Storm Nargis made landfall on the Ayeyarwady Division and on Rangoun Division causing 32 000 deaths, 41 000 missing people and 2 million of homeless people. The military junta inactivity and its refusal to accept humanitarian aid lead to a “new tragedy in the disaster”. …”
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Les rebuts de la société de marché : toxicomanes, psychopathes, sans-abri dans les prisons de l’Amérique by Loïc Wacquant

“…Drugs addicts, the mentally ill, the homeless: the insufficiency and ineptness of social and medical services in the United States ensures that these three categories find themselves behind bars in ever larger numbers over time, as the prison is turned into a dumping ground for the human waste of a society more and more subordinated to the dictates of the market. …”
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L’instrumentalisation de l’espace by Gatien Elie, Elisabeth Foscolo

“…Encampement localization partly explains the media success of the homeless people movement Les Enfants de Don Quichotte during winter 2006-2007. …”
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Le séisme de Pisco du 15 août 2007 : entre urgence et reconstruction by Robert D'Ercole, Jérôme Chandes, Hugo Perfettini, Laurence Audin

“…The number of casualties is small in comparison with the damage recorded, but the number of homeless people is very high. While the event is almost forgotten at the international level, tens of thousands of people are still living in precarious conditions in the temporary shelters provided by the emergency, until begins the reconstruction process. …”
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Géographie et politiques de l’aide d’urgence au Bangladesh ; les désastres engendrés par le typhon Sidr, le 16 novembre 2007 by Marianne Viot, Mouhssine Ennaïmi

“…Sidr typhoon struck the Southern districts in Bangladesh on November 16, 2007 (4000 victims, 8 millions of displaced people / homeless). The discussed reputation of this country supports the attention of the international opinion to him. …”
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The Right Tone for the Hardest Moments: Louisa May Alcott’s New York Stories of Child Labor and Urban Benevolence in the Mid-1870s by Daniela Daniele

“…This article examines Louisa May Alcott’s tales based on her mid-1870s tour of philanthropic institutions for New York’s homeless boys. In an effort to make her lessons more palatable to her young readership and reflecting her own beliefs in the themes of self-improvement, Alcott often euphemizes the shelters’ evidently oppressive and exploitative dimensions. …”
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