Full Description
This book will appeal to a broad range of readerscommunity-based researchers, service providers, policy makers, and students and academics in the fields of Indigenous studies, geography, anthropology, housing studies, social work, and social policy and practice.
Contents
Introduction1 "Homelessness" Is an Outside Word: Understanding Indigenous Homelessness2 Before Contact My Ancestors Travelled Constantly: Mapping Uneven Geographies of Settlement, Development, and Opportunity3 Never Felt at Home: Pathways to Homelessness4 It's So Easy to Burn Your Bridges around Here: The Policy Landscape of Housing and Employment5 They Want a Different Life: Rural-Urban Movements and Home Seeking6 Our Home, Our Way of Life: Home, Homeland, and Spiritual HomelessnessConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index