Towards a contextual approach to the place–homeless survival nexus: An exploratory case study of Los Angeles County

The characteristics of the immediate locale greatly affect the ability of homeless people to adapt to life on the street and in shelters, with different types of places nurturing different circumstances for survival. Current conceptualizations of the place–survival nexus are too narrow, relying on small-scale, intensive studies of particular places that are known to sustain homeless survival while ignoring more suburban and exurban locales, as well as failing to set these places of survival within the larger socio-economic spaces of the metropolitan area. Further, the literature is heavily qualitative, lacking any kind of ‘‘big picture” quantitative assessment of the nexus. In response, we contribute to the place–survival nexus literature by developing a typology of space for homeless survival and then use interview data to examine the variation in survival strategies across three types of urban space in Los Angeles County. Our results speak to how our innovative and exploratory approach enabled a broader, more extensive and variegated understanding of place–survival among homeless people than previous studie

Vínculos sociales y subsistencia en los «Templos de refugio» en Japón: Una exploración de las influencias en la situación de calle entre los jornaleros de los yoseba en Tokio

El trabajo por jornal se describe a menudo como no estructurado, lo que hace ambigua su capacidad de servir como trampa en la situación de calle o como paso hacia la economía formal. Exploramos esta cuestión describiendo los factores que influyen en la situación de calle entre los jornaleros. Analizamos datos de encuestas del mayor yoseba de Tokio, o enclave del trabajo por jornal, y hallamos que los jornaleros evitaron la situación de calle por más días trabajados, educación, permanencia en el cargo como jornalero, y conexiones interpersonales con los intermediarios. La atención a experiencias acumulativas y lazos sociales en los mercados de trabajo por jornal es crucial para entender su estructura, dinámica, funciones y efectos en las trayectorias a largo plazo de los trabajadores

Neighborhoods of Refuge: A PhotoVoice Project Proposal

Natalia Marques da Silva and Matthew Marr\u27s proposal for Neighborhoods of Refuge: A PhotoVoice Project introduces a collaboration between FIU, MDC, and Camillus House art therapy participants that follows the challenges, opportunities, stigma, and day-to-day realities related to homelessness through photograph

Tale of two curricula: The performance of 2000 students in introductory electromagnetism

The performance of over 2000 students in introductory calculus-based electromagnetism (E&M) courses at four large research universities was measured using the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment (BEMA). Two different curricula were used at these universities: a traditional E&M curriculum and the Matter & Interactions (M&I) curriculum. At each university, postinstruction BEMA test averages were significantly higher for the M&I curriculum than for the traditional curriculum. The differences in post-test averages cannot be explained by differences in variables such as preinstruction BEMA scores, grade point average, or SAT Reasoning Test (SAT) scores. BEMA performance on categories of items organized by subtopic was also compared at one of the universities; M&I averages were significantly higher in each topic. The results suggest that the M&I curriculum is more effective than the traditional curriculum at teaching E&M concepts to students, possibly because the learning progression in M&I reorganizes and augments the traditional sequence of topics, for example, by increasing early emphasis on the vector field concept and by emphasizing the effects of fields on matter at the microscopic level