Homeless Youth of Pakistan (eBook)
XIII, 103 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-79305-0 (ISBN)
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.
Muhammad Naveed Noor, MSc, MPhil, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and System Research at the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Dr. Noor is trained in anthropology and social medicine. He received a PhD in social research in health from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has contributed to various programmatic studies into maternal health, sexual and reproductive health, and women's dietary practices in the context of Pakistan. Dr. Noor is currently part of an international team that investigates conflict of interest in medical profession and practice and how this contributes to overprescribing of antibiotics in Pakistan.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.8.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | SpringerBriefs in Economics | SpringerBriefs in Public Health |
Zusatzinfo | XIII, 103 p. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | adolescent sexual health • Bourdieusian theory • Health Promotion • HIV • homeless young people • intimate relationships • Pakistan • safer sex vs. risky sex • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) • sexual risk-taking • Social capital • street-life • survival sex • vulnerability • Youth homelessness |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-79305-2 / 3030793052 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-79305-0 / 9783030793050 |
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