Kulkarni Shanti J, Notario Heidi
School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2024 Apr;52(3):439-458. doi: 10.1002/jcop.23052. Epub 2023 May 12.
Homelessness and intimate partner violence (IPV) do not impact all communities equally. Survivors from marginalized communities-that is communities that have been historically and structurally excluded from social, economic, and political resources-face additional challenges weathering IPV and housing crises. Understanding the housing experiences of marginalized survivors is necessary to achieve housing equity for all survivors. Community-based participatory research methods were utilized to convene 14 listening sessions (7 primary/7 validation) with Black and Latinx IPV survivors with intersectional identities (n = 92). Listening sessions were held in community-based locations including a church, health clinic, social service agency, and private residence. The last five validation sessions were conducted virtually on Zoom due to COVID pandemic protocols. All listening sessions were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. Latinx population listening sessions were conducted in Spanish and were implemented and translated with attention to linguistic justice principles. The research team used a modified constructivist grounded theory approach for data analysis. Four overarching themes (and seven subthemes) related to survivors' housing experiences emerged: (1) safety and healing challenges, including living in unhealthy physical environments, not being safe in their homes, and contending with community violence, sexual exploitation threats, and eviction fears; (2) formal service fragmentation/bureaucracy that hampered access to housing resource information and resources; (3) resource scarcity associated with limited affordable housing stock; and (4) systemic oppression resulting from discriminatory treatment and gentrification. Comprehensive multileveled approaches are needed to disrupt the cycle of housing insecurity for IPV survivors from marginalized communities.
无家可归和亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）对所有社区的影响并不相同。来自边缘化社区的幸存者——即那些在历史上和结构上被排除在社会、经济和政治资源之外的社区——在经受亲密伴侣暴力和住房危机时面临额外挑战。了解边缘化幸存者的住房经历对于实现所有幸存者的住房公平至关重要。采用基于社区的参与性研究方法，与具有交叉身份的黑人和拉丁裔亲密伴侣暴力幸存者召开了14次倾听会（7次主要倾听会/7次验证倾听会）（n = 92）。倾听会在基于社区的场所举行，包括教堂、健康诊所、社会服务机构和私人住宅。由于新冠疫情防控规定，最后五次验证倾听会通过Zoom以线上方式进行。所有倾听会都进行了数字录音并逐字转录。拉丁裔群体的倾听会用西班牙语进行，并在实施和翻译过程中遵循语言公正原则。研究团队采用了一种经过修改的建构主义扎根理论方法进行数据分析。出现了四个与幸存者住房经历相关的总体主题（以及七个子主题）：（1）安全与康复挑战，包括生活在不健康的物质环境中、在家中不安全，以及应对社区暴力、性剥削威胁和被驱逐的恐惧；（2）正式服务的碎片化/官僚作风，这阻碍了获取住房资源信息和资源；（3）与有限的经济适用房存量相关的资源稀缺；（4）由歧视性待遇和中产阶级化导致的系统性压迫。需要采取全面的多层次方法来打破边缘化社区亲密伴侣暴力幸存者住房不安全的循环。
