Negotiations of belonging and rights in outreach work encounters between homeless people and social workers

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Based on an ongoing fieldwork, this paper explores how lived citizenship of homeless people in Copenhagen city is shaped through their encounters with outreach workers. During the encounters which are situated in public space, at drop-in centers, and shelters, the outreach workers try to establish and maintain a collaboration with the homeless person in order to change the his or her situation and find appropriate housing. The paper explores the encounters as ongoing negotiations of belonging and of rights and responsibilities which shape and reshape the lived citizenship of the homeless person. The negotiations consist of spatial practices, experiences, and narratives (Koefoed and Simonsen 2012) where the homeless person’s self-identifications interact with social categorizations (Jenkins 1996). The analysis aims to show how these everyday negotiations are linked to housing policies, gentrification, employment policies, and the homeless person’s legal ties to the administrative territories of the local municipalities.

Periode	31 mar. 2016 → 1 apr. 2016
Begivenhedstitel	European Social Work Research Association: Conference 2016
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Lissabon, PortugalVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	International