Homelessness and discrimination among US adults: The role of intersectionality

AD Otiniano Verissimo, N Henley, GC Gee… - Journal of Social …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Discrimination may contribute to experiencing homelessness. Additionally, individuals who
occupy multiple marginalized statuses may be at particular risk. Identifying the relationship …

Experiences of discrimination among young adults experiencing homelessness: Relationship to mental health outcomes.

SC Narendorf, A Palmer, K Minott… - American Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Young adults experiencing homelessness (YAEH) are at high risk for discrimination. Limited
research has documented the extent of discrimination experiences and their relationship to …

Characterizing discrimination experiences by race among homeless adults

Q Wrighting, LR Reitzel, TA Chen… - American journal of …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Objectives: Among domiciled samples, racial discrimination is a known stressor linked with
poorer quality of life. However, homeless adults may be particularly vulnerable to …

Different faces of discrimination: perceived discrimination among homeless adults with mental illness in healthcare settings

A Skosireva, P O'Campo, S Zerger… - BMC Health Services …, 2014 - Springer
Background Research on discrimination in healthcare settings has primarily focused on
health implications of race-based discrimination among ethno-racial minority groups. Little is …

Why are black adults over-represented among individuals who have experienced lifetime homelessness? Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis of homelessness …

TG Rhee, RA Rosenheck - J Epidemiol Community Health, 2021 - jech.bmj.com
Background Non-Hispanic black adults experience homelessness at higher rates than non-
Hispanic white adults in many studies. We aim to identify factors that could account for this …

Stigmatized identities, psychological distress, and physical health: Intersections of homelessness and race.

C Weisz, DM Quinn - Stigma and Health, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
This study of a racially and ethnically diverse group of homeless adults examined the
relationship between perceived homelessness stigma and psychological distress, physical …

Perceived racial, sexual identity, and homeless status-related discrimination among Black adolescents and young adults experiencing homelessness: Relations with …

MN Gattis, A Larson - American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
There is a dearth of empirical evidence that addresses how racial minority, sexual minority,
and homeless statuses, with their accompanying experiences of stigma and discrimination …

Discrimination at the margins: The intersectionality of homelessness & other marginalized groups

K Lurie, B Schuster, S Rankin - Available at SSRN 2602532, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
This brief addresses the intersectionality of homelessness and other marginalized groups. It
examines six marginalized groups: racial minorities, women, individuals who identify as …

Differential experiences of discrimination among ethnoracially diverse persons experiencing mental illness and homelessness

S Zerger, S Bacon, S Corneau, A Skosireva… - BMC psychiatry, 2014 - Springer
Background This mixed methods study explored the characteristics of and experiences with
perceived discrimination in an ethnically diverse urban sample of adults experiencing …

Marginalization and the homeless: a prescriptive analysis

SB Melnitzer - Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The author discusses marginality in relation to homelessness, emphasizing marginality's
appearance as a psychosocial phenomenon which contributes to homelessness while …