A Comparative Study of Homelessness in Four Global Cities: Los Angeles, Paris, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo

这项研究将利用当地的研究团队对洛杉矶、巴黎、圣保罗和东京的无家可归者进行比较的人种学调查。长期目标是探索为什么在20世纪最后25年的类似时期，这些全球城市中的每一个都会出现无家可归现象。对街头生活的描述将寻找这四个城市的相似和不同之处：谁构成无家可归者：他们的年龄、性别、种族、教育、残疾和工作状况如何将他们与常住居民区分开来？无家可归者的生存策略是什么？他们如何解释他们无家可归的原因？对于无家可归者的出现，政治上的反应是什么？研究小组将各自在各自的城市探索这些问题，并在圣保罗会面进行比较分析。

This research will undertake comparative ethnographic investigations of the homeless in Los Angeles, Paris, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo using local research teams. The long range goal is to explore why homelessness emerged in each of these global cities at similar times in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Descriptions of street life will look for similarities and differences across the four cities: Who constitute the homeless: how do their age, gender, racial-ethnic, educational, disability, and work statuses distinguish them from the domiciled? What are the survival strategies of the homeless? How do they account for their homelessness? What have been the political responses to the emergence of homelessness? The research teams will each explore these questions in their own cities and meet for comparative analyses in Sao Paulo.