Homeless youth of Pakistan : survival sex and HIV risk / Muhammad Naveed Noor.
2021
RA564.9.H63 N66 2021
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Title
Homeless youth of Pakistan : survival sex and HIV risk / Muhammad Naveed Noor.
ISBN
9783030793050 (electronic bk.)
3030793052 (electronic bk.)
9783030793043
3030793044
3030793052 (electronic bk.)
9783030793043
3030793044
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-79305-0 doi
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RA564.9.H63 N66 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.235086/942
Summary
While homeless young people (HYP) are typically perceived as irresponsible and morally suspect individuals who lack essential social skills to navigate their lives, this book offers an alternative and more positive perspective. It demonstrates that HYP improvise with resources available on the streets to improve their social and financial status, although they experience significant social structural constraints. This ground-breaking text provides an analysis of social processes that contribute to young people's homelessness, their engagement in sex work, their establishment of intimate partnerships, and sexual practices which may increase their risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The book demonstrates how the ongoing social and financial instability and insecurity neutralises HYP's knowledge of HIV/STIs, and how financial considerations, fear of violence by clients, and social obligations in intimate partnerships contribute to their sexual risk-taking. The author argues that the conventional approach of promoting health through raising awareness regarding HIV/STI prevention may continue to bring less than promising outcomes unless we focus on how structural and contextual conditions operate in the backdrop and produce conditions less conducive for young people. Included in the coverage: factors that contribute to youth homelessness factors that shape sexual practice a Bourdieusian analysis of youth homelessness and sexual risk-taking a health promotion approach that can potentially reduce youth homelessness and their risk of HIV/STIs Homeless Youth of Pakistan: Survival Sex and HIV Risk will attract undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers interested in exploring issues such as youth homelessness, sexual risk-taking, and HIV/STIs.
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SpringerBriefs in public health. 2192-3701
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Understanding Youth Homelessness
Chapter 3. Understanding Sexual Behaviour
Chapter 4. The Theory of Capital and Social Practice
Chapter 5. Methodological Approach to the Study
Chapter 6. Capital-deficit and Youth Homelessness
Chapter 7. The Street-field: A Capital-building Site
Chapter 8. Sexual Risk-taking: Competing Priorities of Capital-building, Physical Safety, and Sexual Health
Chapter 9. Key Messages and Implications for Health Promotion.
Chapter 2. Understanding Youth Homelessness
Chapter 3. Understanding Sexual Behaviour
Chapter 4. The Theory of Capital and Social Practice
Chapter 5. Methodological Approach to the Study
Chapter 6. Capital-deficit and Youth Homelessness
Chapter 7. The Street-field: A Capital-building Site
Chapter 8. Sexual Risk-taking: Competing Priorities of Capital-building, Physical Safety, and Sexual Health
Chapter 9. Key Messages and Implications for Health Promotion.