Canadian homeless mobilities: relational perspectives on At Home/Chez Soi participants’ interurban migrations

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dc.contributor.authorKaufman, Andrew
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeDyce, Matt (University of Winnipeg, Geography) Masuda, Jeff (Environment & Geography)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorPeyton, Jonathan (Environment and Geography) Distasio, Jino (Environment and Geography)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-29T20:34:43Z
dc.date.available2016-08-29T20:34:43Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.degree.disciplineEnvironment and Geographyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the mobility patterns of 613 participants from the At Home/Chez Soi Research Demonstration Project on Mental Health and Homelessness who were surveyed in five Canadian cities (Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montréal, and Moncton). Participants’ mobility histories are treated as life courses: visualized using a GIS spatiotemporal analysis and complemented by examining their self-described reasons for movement (n=1,750). I contend that homeless mobilities are complex, entangled, and multiple. To better understand these mobilities, I apply relational theoretical perspectives to literature from the mobilities turn. I conceptualize mobility as composed of the relations between various actors. These relations coordinate amidst social differences, histories, and orderings of power. Together, actors and the relations between them, become more than the sum of their parts. To see mobility relationally, is to say that mobilities have emergent properties that reproduce, deepen, or ameliorate marginalization for those experiencing homelessness. I identify a series of actors and their relations composing homeless mobilities via time-space mapping, descriptive statistics, and the exploratory coding of survey data. I conclude by detailing a relational view of homeless mobilities while suggesting that expulsion is one emergent property of this system.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2016en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/31608
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectHomelessnessen_US
dc.subjectHomelessen_US
dc.subjectAt Home / Chez Soien_US
dc.subjectAt Homeen_US
dc.subjectChez Soien_US
dc.subjectHousing firsten_US
dc.subjectMobilityen_US
dc.subjectMobilitiesen_US
dc.subjectActor Network Theoryen_US
dc.subjectAssemblage Theoryen_US
dc.subjectComplexity Theoryen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectRelational Theoriesen_US
dc.subjectGISen_US
dc.subjectSpace-Time Mappingen_US
dc.subjectCartographyen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.titleCanadian homeless mobilities: relational perspectives on At Home/Chez Soi participants’ interurban migrationsen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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