Homeless immigrants in the UK: the hostile environment of health and social care public policy

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21669/tomo.vi40.15083

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Immigrants, Homeless population, Black people, Health, United Kingdom

Abstract

For a better understanding of the effectiveness of social assistance and collective health policies regarding the conditions of the homeless population in England, this essay presents a methodology that focuses on a more descriptive analysis of public policies with some institutional frameworks in relation to immigration policy and health care - and its consequences for health care in times of Brexit. A methodologically qualitative approach of a reception institution is also presented, which allows understanding aspects of the sociability of the homeless population in its transnational profile, which more recently suffers a redefinition by the bias of the stigmatized image of the immigrant, especially those of black Caribbean and African origin hosted in a hostel in Leeds - Yorkshire.

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Author Biography

Breitner Tavares, Universidade de Brasília (UNB)

Sociologist and professor at the University of Brasilia - Ceilândia College. Researcher focused on issues of race relations and youth. In addition, he has research with interdisciplinary emphasis that involves the fields of collective health, qualitative methodologies, urban sociology.

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2022-01-09

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Tavares, B. (2022). Homeless immigrants in the UK: the hostile environment of health and social care public policy. TOMO Review, (40), 417. https://doi.org/10.21669/tomo.vi40.15083

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No. 40 (2022): January/June

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