Indigenous homelessness : perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand / edited by Evelyn J. Peters and Julia Christensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, Evelyn J. (Evelyn Joy), 1951- editor.

Christensen, Julia (Writer on homelessness), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian homeless persons--Canada.

Indian homeless persons.

Homeless persons--Canada.

Homeless persons.

Homeless persons--Australia.

Homeless persons--New Zealand.

Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions.

Aboriginal Australians.

Māori (New Zealand people)--Social conditions.

Māori (New Zealand people).

Homelessness--Canada.

Homelessness.

Homelessness--Australia.

Homelessness--New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2016.

Summary:

Being homeless in one's homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenouspeoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related attempts at assimilation that disrupted Indigenous practices, languages, and cultures-including patterns of housing and land use-can be seen today in the disproportionate number of Indigenous people affected by homelessness in both rural and urban settings.Essays in this collection explore the meaning and scope of Indigenous homelessness in the Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. They argue that effective policy and support programs aimed at relieving Indigenous homelessness must be rooted in Indigenous conceptions of home, land, and kinship, and cannot ignore the context of systemic inequality, institutionalization, landlessness, among other things, that stem from a history of colonialism."Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, New Zealand and Australia" provides a comprehensive exploration of the Indigenous experience of homelessness. It testifies to ongoing cultural resilience and lays the groundwork for practices and policies designed to better address the conditions that lead to homelessness among Indigenous peoples.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Part 1: Canada

Chapter 1. Indigenous Homelessness: Canadian Context

Chapter 2. "They Don't Let Us Look after Each Other Like We Used To": Reframing Indigenous Homeless Geographies as Home/Journeying in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Chapter 3. The Importance of Hidden Homelessness in the Housing Strategies of Urban Indigenous People

Chapter 4. No Dumping: Indigenousness and the Racialized Police Transport of the Urban Homeless

Chapter 5. Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Respondents to the Health and Housing in Transition (HHit) Study: An Intersectional Approach

Chapter 6. The Inclusion of Indigenous Voices in Co-Constructing "Home": Indigenous Homelessness in a Northern Semi-Urban Community in Manitoba

Chapter 7. Community-Engaged Scholarship: A Path to New Solutions for Old Problems in Indigenous Homelessness

Chapter 8. "All We Need Is Our Land": Exploring Southern Alberta Urban Indigenous Homelessness

Chapter 9. Rural Indigenous Homelessness in Canada

Part 2: Australia

Chapter 10. Indigenous Homelessness: Australian Context

Chapter 11. Indigenous Fringe Dwelling in Geraldton, Western Australia: A Colonial Legacy

Chapter 12. Looking through the Service Lens: Case Studies in Indigenous Homelessness in Two Australian Towns

Chapter 13. "We Are Good-Hearted People, We Like to Share": Definitional Dilemmas of Crowding and Homelessness in Urban Indigenous Australia

Chapter 14. Enforcing "Normality": A Case Study of the Role of the "Three-Strikes" Housing Policy Model in Australian Indigenous Homelessness

Part 3: New Zealand

Chapter 15. Indigenous Homelessness: New Zealand Context

Chapter 16. Tūrangawaewae Kore: Nowhere to Stand

Chapter 17. Emplaced Cultural Practices through which Homeless Men Can Be Māori

Conclusion

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780887558269

0887558267

OCLC:

952801040