Adéquation entre les besoins des femmes en situation d’itinérance et les services disponibles au Québec : impact sur leur marginalisation
Keywords:
homelessness, women, intervention, social invisibility/visibility, participatory research, epistemology of the margins, exiting the street, trajectories, deviance/marginality, criminalization, concealed homelessness, poverty, housing for women in difficulty, world of assistance, survival, anchoring, ethnography, jail, incarcerated womenAbstract
Women experiencing homelessness are a marginalized and vulnerable group of people for whom there are few appropriate support services. This inadequacy will often lead them to adopt alternative survival strategies. As a result, those means developed in an effort to regain an adaptive stability will put homeless women at greater risk of victimization, continued homelessness and prosecution. To better understand this issue, this critical narrative review explores the singular relationship that homeless women have with the resources available and its effect on the strategies they deploy to survive. The aim is to highlight the various elements that contribute to the disaffiliation of these women. The identification of these elements allows to consider the development of a service offer more adapted to the unique needs of this population.
