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Street homelessness in urban Cape Town: an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/123968 Street homelessness in urban Cape Town: an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets Jadezweni, Nobulali Lesch, Anthea Marian Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Psychology. Lived experience Homelessness Government officials Heidegger Interpretive phenomenology Homeless persons -- Experiential research Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of street homelessness from the perspectives of the people who are living on the streets and government officials who work with this population group in urban Cape Town. Adults living on the streets (five males and six females) between the ages of 24 and 49 years were purposively selected. Additionally, two government officials working with the street homeless population for five years were also purposively selected. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with all the participants. An interpretive phenomenological analysis inspired by Heidegger was used as a lens to analyze the transcribed data. Street homelessness emerged because of the loss of a home, and not as an intentional choice. For these individual’s street homelessness is a spontaneous response to distressing life experiences. Another finding is that participants intentionally left their homes due to broken family systems, such as toxic family environments and abuse. These participants left their homes because they did not feel they belonged, as they were abandoned by their parents. For these individuals, street homelessness emerged as an expression of belonging. Street homelessness, from the perspective of the study participants, challenges the view that construes a house as a home, and which stipulates how people should inhabit their world. To survive on the street was characterized by being grouped with criminals and gangsters; labelling and dehumanization; and living in a state of fear. Despite these challenges, survival on the streets was made possible through a hope of a better life and being united with their children. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die hoofdoel van hierdie studie was om die ervarings van straat haweloosheid te ondersoek vanuit die perspektiewe van die mense wat op straat woon, en regeringsamptenare wat saam met hierdie bevolkingsgroep in die stedelike Kaapstad werk. Volwassenes wat op straat woon (vyf mans en ses vroue) tussen 24 en 49 jaar is doelgerig gekies. Twee regeringsamptenare wat vyf jaar lank saam met die hawelose bevolking gewerk het, was ook doelgerig gekies. Daar is diepgaande semi- gestruktureerde onderhoude met al die deelnemers gevoer. Interpretatiewe fenomenologiese analise geïnspireer deur Heidegger was gebruik as 'n lens om die getranskribeerde data te ontleed. Straat haweloosheid het ontstaan as gevolg van die verlies van 'n huis, en nie as 'n opsetlike keuse nie. Straat haweloosheid is vir hierdie individue 'n spontane reaksie op ontstellende lewenservarings. Nog 'n bevinding is dat deelnemers doelbewus hul huise verlaat het weens gebroke gesinsisteme, soos onstabiele gesinsomgewings en mishandeling. Hierdie deelnemers het hul huise verlaat omdat hulle nie gevoel het dat hulle daar behoort nie en omdat hulle deur hul ouers verlaat is. Vir hierdie individue het haweloosheid na vore gekom as 'n uitdrukking van aanvaarding. Straat haweloosheid, vanuit die perspektief van die deelnemers aan die studie, daag die siening uit dat jy net tuis voel wanneer jy in 'n woning is, en ook die idees van hoe mense hul wêreld moet bewoon. Om op straat te oorleef was gekenmerk deur die volgende; met misdadigers te geassosieer word, om gestempel te word met negatiewe eienskappe, ontmensliking en om te leef in 'n toestand van vrees. Ten spyte van hierdie uitdagings is oorlewing op straat moontlik gemaak deur die hoop op 'n beter lewe en die hereniging met hul kinders. Masters 2021-12-07T06:15:33Z 2021-12-22T14:32:05Z 2021-12-07T06:15:33Z 2021-12-22T14:32:05Z 2021-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123968 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 237 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Lived experience Homelessness Government officials Heidegger Interpretive phenomenology Homeless persons -- Experiential research Jadezweni, Nobulali Street homelessness in urban Cape Town: an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets |
| title | Street homelessness in urban Cape Town: an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets |
| title_full | Street homelessness in urban Cape Town: an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets |
| title_fullStr | Street homelessness in urban Cape Town: an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Street homelessness in urban Cape Town: an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets |
| title_short | Street homelessness in urban Cape Town: an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets |
| title_sort | street homelessness in urban cape town an exploratory study of the lived experiences of people living on the streets |
| topic | Lived experience Homelessness Government officials Heidegger Interpretive phenomenology Homeless persons -- Experiential research |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123968 |
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