Homelessness and the Meaning of Home: Rooflessness or Rootlessness?
Homelessness and the Meaning of Home: Rooflessness or Rootlessness?
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无家可归和家的意义：无屋顶还是无根？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2427.1992.tb00194.x
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
P. Somerville
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作者：
P. Somerville
这篇论文有几个目的。它们是：(1)根据最近关于家庭含义的贡献分析无家可归的含义：(2)批评当前关于无家可归作为一个社会问题的一些观点；(3)确定和探索关于家庭和无家可归含义的若干不同方面；(4)重新评估关于家庭和无家可归的背景的证据，并根据重新评估的证据重新审查无家可归的含义；以及(5)解释官方定义、立法和国家规定(或没有)所表达的无家可归的政治意义。
This paper has several objectives. These are: (1) to analyse the meaning of homelessness in the light of recent contributions on the meaning of home: (2) to criticize some current perspectives on homelessness as a social problem; (3) to identify and explore a number of different dimensions of the meaning of home and homelessness; (4) to reassess the evidence on the context of home and homelessness, and re-examine the meaning of homelessness in the light of that reassessed evidence; and (5) to explain the political meaning of homelessness as expressed in official definitions, legislation and state provision (or lack of it).