Explaining the Homelessness Phenomenon in Familistic Mediterranean Societies: A New Analytical Framework

IF 2.8 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI:10.1007/s11205-023-03292-6

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Abstract

This article studies the importance of the loss of family ties and its symbolic burden in the narrative of homeless people in familistic societies. The family is the main reason why poverty does not directly lead to social exclusion in southern European countries. However, the economic crises of the last two decades have weakened the ability of the family to protect its members. The new forms of poverty that imply processes of individualized social exclusion that lead to homelessness in southern Europe can be understood as a consequence of the overload currently suffered by families in those countries due to the recent economic crises. The loss of family ties in this type of society is so stigmatizing that, even if the person is living on the street for structural reasons such as having been unemployed and having lost their home due to the effects of the recent economic crises and not receiving aid from social services, always reproduces a characteristic story of self-victimization and mourning for not having had a good family that has helped him in times of need.

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解释地中海家庭社会中的无家可归现象：新的分析框架

摘要本文研究了家庭主义社会中无家可归者叙事中失去家庭纽带及其象征性负担的重要性。在南欧国家，家庭是贫困不会直接导致社会排斥的主要原因。然而，过去二十年的经济危机削弱了家庭保护其成员的能力。新形式的贫困意味着个人化的社会排斥过程，导致南欧国家出现无家可归者，这可以理解为这些国家的家庭由于最近的经济危机而承受过重负担的后果。在这种社会中，失去家庭纽带是一种耻辱，因此，即使是由于结构性原因（如失业、因近期经济危机的影响而失去家园以及没有得到社会服务机构的援助）而流落街头的人，也总是再现一个自我伤害的故事，并为没有一个在他需要时给予帮助的好家庭而哀悼。

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Social Indicators Research Multiple-

CiteScore

6.30

自引率

6.50%

发文量

174

期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.