... Chapter Three, “Shelter and Domesticity,” examines the architectural coordinates of shelter, central to humanitarian and architectural practice and discourse, and the conceptual problem of domesticity, crucial for refugee lives. It theorizes the insurgent domesticities of Dadaab, contextualizing...

... shelter domesticity gender expertise Norwegian Refugee Council ...

... Chapter 2 explores the period in the shelter known as the shelter renovations or takeover, when a former automobile industry executive becomes the interim executive director of the Fresh Start shelter’s parent organization. The author demonstrates how the improvements that the executive director...

... infrastructure homeless shelters urban planning political ecology nonplaces ...

... homeless shelter low-wage work self-improvement Black girls and education ...

... administrative law ID homeless poverty health care prison shelter sex-segregation civil rights ...

.... This includes formally planned spaces such as shelters and day centers but also the informal squatter camps that developed in the discarded spaces of the city. The placement of these sites has the effect of removing homeless persons from the socially valued and centrally located spaces of urban life. Whether...

...Scripts Chapter 2 explores the period in the shelter known as the shelter renovations or takeover, when a former automobile industry executive becomes the interim executive director of the Fresh Start shelter’s parent organization. The author demonstrates how the improvements...

... Martha Balaguera illuminates how gender and geographical transitions shape each other, blurring distinctions of shelter and homelessness, motion and boundedness, freedom and unfreedom, and undergirding her conceptual innovation of “confinement in motion.” transgender confinement...

... days of the shelter are the main narratives in this chapter. The author demonstrates that how these events are imagined, retold, and performed by the shelter residents reflect how Black girls respond to their illegibility by creatively narrating themselves and, thus, locating play in and through...

... Chapter 4 investigates how sexuality and gender organize the lives of low-income young Black women by describing the ways in which ideas regarding normative and deviant sexuality and appropriate and dysfunctional gendered expressions circulate in the shelter. The intersection of class...