Scientific journal paper Q3
Gendered and classed homelessness: A life-history analysis on displaced survival in Lisbon
Saila-Maria Saaristo (Saaristo, S.-M.);
Journal Title
CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios
Year (definitive publication)
2023
Language
English
Country
Portugal
More Information
Web of Science®

This publication is not indexed in Web of Science®

Scopus

Times Cited: 0

(Last checked: 2024-12-17 15:10)

View record in Scopus

Google Scholar

Times Cited: 0

(Last checked: 2024-12-18 06:28)

View record in Google Scholar

Alternative Titles

(Portuguese) Género, classe e exclusão habitacional: Histórias de vida sobre a sobrevivência das desalojadas

Abstract
This article examines the gendered and classed dynamics of homelessness and displacements in Portugal. I use the lens of displaced survival to bring light to the complex web of relations that promote the housing exclusion of low-wage single mothers. I show how these families, expelled from housing programmes and unable to afford housing in the private rental sector, are left to suffer from a cycle of displacements, leading to accentuated poverty and dispossession, which also leads to over-generational perpetuation of poverty. Methodologically the study draws from life-history interviews and policy analysis, conducted from 2017 to 2019 in Lisbon. In addition to being exploited within paid and unpaid labour and having to pay an unaffordable rent, displacements and evictions exacerbate the dispossession and poverty of these families, given that their specific conditions as low-income single mothers are not recognised within the policy responses.
Acknowledgements
--
Keywords
Displacement,Care work,Social reproduction,Homelessness,Gender,Portugal
  • Sociology - Social Sciences
  • Social and Economic Geography - Social Sciences
  • Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences
  • Anthropology - Social Sciences

With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific publications with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência-IUL. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified by the author(s) for this publication. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.