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Included as a vital component of an in depth research project, concerning homelessness and life trajectories of homeless people, this study is devoted to the identification of communalities and singularities between daily life and survival strategies of homeless men and women. To accomplish this major goal, the researcher participated in outreach interventions (6 teams, nextgreater400) and performed 96 in depth interviews with (formerly) homeless people and professionals [38 homeless, 11 formerly homeless, and 47 ...

Part of a larger research project, subordinated to the comprehension of the experience of homelessness in contemporaneity, this paper focuses on the analysis of the roles that vocational training and transitions to and from the labor market, assume in the context of experiencing this form of severe deprivation. Although quite unknown to professionals, agents with governance responsibilities (local, regional and national), as well as citizens, homelessness comprises, for many of the adults inhabiting the Portuguese...

Subordinated to the key question "what is (are) the main problem(s) and/or concern(s) of homeless people?" this study aimed at the generation of a theoretical model, explanatory of the different processes that embody diverse trajectories, since its emergence to successful exit. Entitled surviving the streets, the generated GT emerged from the analysis of information gathered through complementary observation approaches (e.g., unstructured observation, observation of street interventions), and 96 interviews [homele...