Surviving the housing crisis: Social violence and the production of evictions among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
Surviving the housing crisis: Social violence and the production of evictions among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
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10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.04.001
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发表时间：
2018-05-01
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4.8
通讯作者：
McNeil, Ryan
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作者：
Collins, Alexandra B.;Boyd, Jade;McNeil, Ryan
单间住房是许多城市环境中使用非法药物的边缘化妇女获得住房的唯一形式。然而，SRA住房环境可能会对妇女造成特定的健康和药物风险。很少有研究审查导致吸毒妇女住房脆弱性的性别机制以及随后旨在减轻伤害的方式。本研究探讨了性别脆弱性，并从所产生的危害，驱逐从温哥华，加拿大的SRA。定性访谈进行了56人谁使用毒品谁最近被驱逐（过去60天）从SRA在温哥华的市中心东区附近，其中19人确定为妇女，告知本分析。参与者由同侪研究助理招募，在三到六个月后进行基线和后续访谈。访谈记录进行了专题分析，并利用社会暴力的概念进行解释。调查结果强调了性别暴力和各种形式的社会控制如何在性权利协定中运作，使暴力侵害妇女行为正常化，并限制了她们的代理权。监视机制增加了妇女遭受暴力的经历，因为她们试图逃避这种干预。受害后，妇女面临着明显的易受伤害的脆弱性，这加强了她们在毒品环境中的社会和空间边缘地位。总的来说，妇女在性服务机构中的经历突出表明，在这些住房环境中使用的混合形式的惩戒机制如何对妇女遭受伤害的经历产生了重大影响。需要更加关注住房和建筑政策对吸毒妇女的影响，以更好地解决这一群体的发病率和死亡率问题。
Single room accommodation (SRA) housing is among the only forms of accessible housing to marginalized women who use illicit drugs in many urban settings. However, SRA housing environments may create specific health and drug risks for women. Little research has examined the gendered mechanisms contributing to housing vulnerability for women who use drugs and the subsequent ways they aim to mitigate harm. This study examines the gendered vulnerabilities to, and harms stemming from, evictions from SRAs in Vancouver, Canada. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 56 people who use drugs who were recently evicted (past 60 days) from SRAs in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, 19 of whom identified as women which informed this analysis. Participants were recruited by Peer Researcher Assistants for baseline and follow-up interviews three to six months later. Interview transcripts were analyzed thematically and interpreted by drawing on concepts of social violence. Findings underscore how gendered violence and forms of social control operationalized within SRAs normalized violence against women and restricted their agency. Surveillance mechanisms increased women's experiences of violence as they sought to evade such interventions. Posteviction, women faced pronounced vulnerability to harm which reinforced their social and spatial marginality within a drug scene. Collectively, women's experiences within SRAs highlight how the hybrid forms of disciplinary mechanisms used within these housing environments significantly impacted women's experiences of harm. Greater attention to the impacts of housing and building policies on women who use drugs is needed to better address the morbidity and mortality of this population.