Homeless Not Hopeless: The Survival Networks of Latino and African American Men (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761840459)

The importance of moving toward a national policy to end homelessness is crucial. In this striking examination of the roles that homeless people and the U.S. government play in causing and curtailing the escalating phenomena of homelessness, Edna Molina-Jackson asserts that there is a great need to alter the socio-economic structures that generate extreme and entrenched forms of poverty that lead to homelessness.

Homeless Not Hopeless explores the role social networks play in the daily survival of homeless Latino and African American men. Using a qualitative research design, author Molina-Jackson observes how these men initiate, participate in, and maintain social networks and how these networks function. The findings support a more empowering view of homeless men as active, rational, and competent actors engaged in negotiating their social world. Members rely on social networks composed of a hierarchy of casual and intimate affiliations. The networks of Americanized Latinos and African Americans facilitate their integration into a subculture of street life, while those of recent-immigrant Latinos revolve around their struggles to find work, avoid deportation, and enlist the support of paisanos.

Author: Edna Molina-Jackson
ISBN-10: 0761840451
ISBN-13: 9780761840459
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2008
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2009