“Not Just Being Out on the Streets”: Serving LGBTQ+ Youth Experiencing Homelessness in Milwaukee
| dc.contributor.advisor | Anne Bonds | |
| dc.creator | Heady, Catherine | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-16T18:51:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-16T18:51:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-05-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | LGBTQ+ youth homeless is a pressing topic for geographic study, as LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in youth homeless populations (Cunningham et al. 2014; Morton et al 2018). The conditions that create urban youth homelessness are social, material, and spatial. This research aims to examine service providers’ perspective of the conditions of LGBTQ+ youth homelessness in Milwaukee. Specifically, I examine how service providers in the city understand LGBTQ+ youth homelessness, where service providers identify barriers and gaps in the city for LGBTQ+ homeless youth, and ways service providers challenge and/or reproduce LGBTQ+ youth homelessness in their care work. Drawing on feminist and queer geographic literature, and informed by feminist care ethics, I conduct qualitative research with participants from four non-profit organizations across Milwaukee. From interviews with these service providers, I employ a thematic analysis of the conditions of LGBTQ+ youth homelessness in the city. In this thesis, I argue that service providers understand LGBTQ+ youth homelessness as informed by urban conditions that are reproduced through hierarchies of race, class, gender, sexuality, through the built environment, and through neoliberal logics of care. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/87505 | |
| dc.relation.replaces | https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/3013 | |
| dc.subject | feminist care ethics | |
| dc.subject | feminist geography | |
| dc.subject | LGBTQ+ youth homelessness | |
| dc.subject | queer geographies | |
| dc.subject | urban geography | |
| dc.subject | youth homelessness | |
| dc.title | “Not Just Being Out on the Streets”: Serving LGBTQ+ Youth Experiencing Homelessness in Milwaukee | |
| dc.type | thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Geography | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |
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