Identit? e riconoscimento: un possibile approccio teorico per la comprensione del fenomeno dell?homelessness?

Veronica Polin

ECONOMIA PUBBLICA, 2017, vol. 2017/3, issue 3, 91-117

Abstract: Identity and recognition: A possible theoretical key to understanding the phenomenon of homelessness? Homelessness is one of the most extreme forms of poverty. Recent literature explains this event using an approach that combines individual characteristics and structural forces. However, in the homelessness?s study few attention has been given to human dimension and the role of crisis of identity and recognition. The need to be socially recognized is not simply a need among many others, to which we can possibly give up: it is a basic condition of our being human persons. Becoming homeless is definitely a very traumatic event, but these persons suffer before they begin this transition and continue even after that. In both phases, homeless people might be victims of various forms of misrecognition: physical and psychological maltreatment, rights? deprivation and social exclusion that affect the validation of their social identity. Homelessness is certainly an expression of material and economic poverty, but it might also reflect other human and social problems. The aim of this paper is to explore how identity and recognition concepts can be used as a framework to understand homelessness experience more deeply and design effective and innovative public policies.

JEL-codes: A12 D63 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista. ... 488&Tipo=ArticoloPDF (text/html)
Single articles can be downloaded buying download credits, for info: https://www.francoangeli.it/DownloadCredit

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fan:epepep:v:html10.3280/ep2017-003004

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.francoang ... io.aspx?IDRivista=16

Access Statistics for this article

ECONOMIA PUBBLICA is currently edited by FrancoAngeli

More articles in ECONOMIA PUBBLICA from FrancoAngeli Editore
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Stefania Rosato ().