No Place Like Home: Youth Homelessness in Britain Book

This is a vivid portrait of youth homelessness. The author spent twelve months in the company of a group of young people moving between shelters, hostels, rooming houses, and the street. The result is a compelling narrative of a growing social crisis. Drawing on anthropological and sociological perspectives, Tom Hall explores themes of marginality, community, youth and home. He provides a detailed description of the lived experience of those in a particular excluded corner of society, and, in doing so, aims to create an account of wider resonance. The young homeless, although removed from much of the substance of society, live through, and are emblematic of, changes fundamental to the reshaping of social life in the UK and beyond. Out of work, out of the family home and on the fringes of the social security system, they experience acutely the end of welfare capitalism and find themselves at the focus of contemporary fears of social disintegration. The book explores what it means to be growing up at the cutting edge of these changes.Read More