<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In a city in western Switzerland (as in other cities), homeless people are targeted by three policies: a compassionate policy, specific to social emergency measures; a policy of repression; and, as far as residents are concerned, a traditional welfare policy. Based on accounts by homeless people, the article highlights their logics for using the night emergency system. It also shows how their vulnerabilities are produced by the simultaneous deployment of local, national, and European policies.</p></abstract>

In a city in western Switzerland (as in other cities), homeless people are targeted by three policies: a compassionate policy, specific to social emergency measures; a policy of repression; and, as far as residents are concerned, a traditional welfare policy. Based on accounts by homeless people, the article highlights their logics for using the night emergency system. It also shows how their vulnerabilities are produced by the simultaneous deployment of local, national, and European policies.

Home Street Home. Experiences of Homelessness in a City in French-Speaking Switzerland

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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In a city in western Switzerland (as in other cities), homeless people are targeted by three policies: a compassionate policy, specific to social emergency...

Home Street Home. Experiences of Homelessness in a City in French-Speaking Switzerland

Published Online: Mar 29, 2022

Page range: 165 - 184

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2022-0008

Keywords
Homelessness, social emergency, power relations, vulnerabilities

© 2022 Hélène Martin et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Home Street Home. Experiences of Homelessness in a City in French-Speaking Switzerland

Published Online: Mar 29, 2022

Page range: 165 - 184

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2022-0008

KeywordsHomelessness, social emergency, power relations, vulnerabilities

© 2022 Hélène Martin et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Homelessness, social emergency, power relations, vulnerabilities