By Edna Molina-Jackson
Homeless no longer Hopeless explores the position social networks play within the day-by-day survival of homeless Latino and African American males. utilizing a qualitative study layout, writer Molina-Jackson observes how those males start up, perform, and keep social networks and the way those networks functionality. The findings help a extra empowering view of homeless males as energetic, rational, and powerfuble actors engaged in negotiating their social international. contributors depend on social networks composed of a hierarchy of informal and intimate affiliations. The networks of Americanized Latinos and African americans facilitate their integration right into a way of life of highway existence, whereas these of recent-immigrant Latinos revolve round their struggles to discover paintings, stay away from deportation, and enlist the aid of paisanos.
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