Migrant women’s health and housing insecurity: an intersectional analysis

Purpose This paper presents an analysis of how health intersects with the experience of housing insecurity and homelessness, specifically for migrant women. The authors argue that it is important to understand the specificities of the interplay of these different factors to continue the advancement of our understanding and practice as advocates for health and housing security. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory, qualitative, methodological approach was adopted, using a broad definition of housing insecurity: from absolute homelessness (e.g. residing rough) to invisible homelessness (e.g. couch surfing) to those at risk of homelessness. In total, 26 newcomer (foreign-born women who came to live in Canada during the previous ten years, regardless of their immigration status) women were recruited in Montreal, Canada. Participants were recruited directly through advertisements in public places and in collaboration with community organizations (women’s centers, homeless shelters, crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, immigrant settlement agencies and ethnic associations) and they self-identified as having experienced housing insecurity. Efforts were made to include a diversity of immigrant statuses as well as diversity in ethnicity, race, country of origin, family composition, sexual orientation, age and range of physical and mental ability. Women were engaged in semi-structured, open-ended interviews lasting approximately 1 h. Interviews were conducted in English or French in a location and time of participants’ choosing. Findings The findings are presented around three themes: how health problems instigate and maintain migrant women’s housing insecurity and homelessness; ways in which women’s immigration trajectories and legal status may influence their health experiences; and particular coping strategies that migrant women employ in efforts to maintain or manage their health. The authors conclude with implications of these findings for both policy and practice in relation to migrant women who experience or are at risk of housing insecurity and homelessness. Originality/value Intersections of women experiencing migration and housing insecurity in Canadian contexts have rarely been examined. This paper addresses a gap in the literature in terms of topic and context, but also in terms of sharing the voices of migrant women with direct experience with housing insecurity.

BALEE INONG DAN PENGENDALIAN MASALAH-MASALAH SOSIAL REMAJA (STUDI KASUS DI KECAMATAN ULEE KARENG KOTA BANDA ACEH)

Banda Aceh has uttered a local institution which was named Balee Inong that was managed by Gampong society (village) especially for woman. Balee Inong has to realize the role of civil society; including tackling the issue of juvenile delinquency, but not specifically institution for handles the issue of juvenile delinquency. One of the problems of juvenile delinquency preventive efforts can be done through education. Based on background of study above, this paper attempts to reveal how is Balee Inong’s effort in instilling the values of education for adolescents who have problems of juvenile delinquency in the district of Ulee Kareng-Banda Aceh? How is Balee Inong’s role in instilling the value of education to mothers in order to fortify and overcome the impact of deviant behavior as well as to educate their children? The theory used in this paper is the Local Institutions by Esman and Uphoff and Social Control Theory. The results showed that the role of women's centers Ceurih to make efforts to handle the problems of juvenile delinquency, carried out through educational patterns or increased capacity and using two methods, the first: through a direct approach, namely the efforts leading to the problems and issues being faced by adolescents; second: through the indirect approach, which attempts to do leads to a skill or capacity-building approach adolescence. Efforts and the roles are not limited to teenagers, but also performed on their mother, in order to fortify and overcome the impact of deviant behavior. Efforts and roles performed are: first, the increase in capacity can be made directly associated with social issues that are occurring with women's expectations of Balee Inong Ceurih can address the problem of juvenile delinquency; second, the majority of programs other capacity building undertaken by Balee Inong Ceurih, actually indirectly also directs women can fortify and tackling deviant behavior. Then, the control of social issues that was conducted by Balee Inong is preventative. Keywords: Balee Inong, social control, juvenile delinquency.