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Zoom
Start Date
16-12-2020 9:25 AM
Description
Youth homelessness is an issue which is absent from mainstream public discourse and scholarship on homelessness in general. Despite being on track to becoming a crisis, there is not enough documentation on how risk factors and marginalization give rise to this process. While studies have been done nationwide on this phenomenon in terms of LGBTQ+ youth, youth homelessness due to childhood risk factors, and how other risk groups are affected, most studies are not regionally specific, or they fail to bridge these factors. By articulating the causality of previous seminal works and conducting ethnographic research, I seek to lay a groundwork which enriches the current scholarship on youth homelessness and influences similar scholarship in other regions. This work is also crucial in providing more humanizing statistical analysis through firsthand perspectives and observation.
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The Contribution of Childhood Risk Factors and Marginalization to Youth Homelessness in Los Angeles
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Youth homelessness is an issue which is absent from mainstream public discourse and scholarship on homelessness in general. Despite being on track to becoming a crisis, there is not enough documentation on how risk factors and marginalization give rise to this process. While studies have been done nationwide on this phenomenon in terms of LGBTQ+ youth, youth homelessness due to childhood risk factors, and how other risk groups are affected, most studies are not regionally specific, or they fail to bridge these factors. By articulating the causality of previous seminal works and conducting ethnographic research, I seek to lay a groundwork which enriches the current scholarship on youth homelessness and influences similar scholarship in other regions. This work is also crucial in providing more humanizing statistical analysis through firsthand perspectives and observation.
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Mentor: Vanessa Diaz