"When You're Homeless Your Friends Are Like Your Home": Street Involved Youth Friendship in Victoria, Canada

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dc.contributor.authorWerdal, Thayne Vernon
dc.contributor.supervisorMitchell, Lisa M.
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-18T21:45:13Z
dc.date.available2013-12-18T21:45:13Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-12-18
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores street involved youth friendship in Victoria, Canada. The friendships of street involved youth—that is “young people who may or may not be homeless and spend some time in the social and economic world of ‘the street’” (Perkin 2009)—are regularly thought and talked about as being prone to deviant or risky behaviour, particularly in social scientific literature and by the mainstream media. I conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 street involved youth (ages 16 – 21) who talked about friendships as important relationships offering (among other things) help, protection, support, nurture and meaningful existences not available to them otherwise. Street youth friendships allow youth some escape and respite from damaging neoliberal political-economic policies in Victoria, Canada. In addition, street involved youth friendships bring into question dominant developmentalist discourses and assumptions as youth agentively and expertly negotiate their friendships in careful and nuanced ways.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0326en_US
dc.description.proquestemailtwerdal@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5094
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectFriendshipen_US
dc.subjectAnthropologyen_US
dc.subjectStreet involved youthen_US
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen_US
dc.subjectDevelopmentalismen_US
dc.subjectHomeless youthen_US
dc.subjectHomelessnessen_US
dc.subjectSocial Scienceen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen_US
dc.title"When You're Homeless Your Friends Are Like Your Home": Street Involved Youth Friendship in Victoria, Canadaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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