LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness and Intersectionality

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“Carin’s book shines a light on the homelessness emergency that too many young LGBTQ+ young people are living through. It is also a rallying call on how we must rise to meet that challenge.”- Adam Pemberton Wickham, Chief Executive, akt, UK "In this sorely-needed book, Carin has filled a gap in both the social science and policy literatures on what it means to be young, queer, and precariously housed in twenty-first century Britain."-Dr Melissa Demian, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, UK "This scholarly but accessible book makes an important contribution to socio-legal scholarship on homelessness by focussing on LGBTQ+ homelessness and intersectional disadvantage."-Professor Helen Carr, University of Southampton, UK This book examines why Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) young people continue to face homelessness and intersectional disadvantages, even as legal and social attitudes appear to improve. Drawing on seventeen years of ethnographic research and frontline work in England, it offers an intimate and rigorous account of how young people navigate housing precarity, family rejection and uneven access to state support. It shows how sexuality, gender, race, class, disability and religion shape encounters with welfare systems, revealing how well‑intentioned policies can reproduce harm and how celebrated progress in LGBTQ+ rights can obscure the structural conditions that leave many behind. Tunåker argues for a deeper understanding of the “paradox of progress” and its consequences for those at the sharpest edges of marginalisation. The book speaks to scholars and practitioners in socio‑legal studies, legal anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, homelessness and housing research, and anyone concerned with state power and meaningful social change. Dr Carin Tunåker is a legal anthropologist and Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School, UK, and Co‑Director of the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice. Her research exposes hidden and everyday forms of housing precarity. She leads major studies on LGBTQ+ homelessness and intersectionality. Her scholarship advances a critical, activist socio‑legal approach that reframes homelessness as a political and relational crisis rather than an individual failure.

This book examines why Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) young people continue to face homelessness and intersectional disadvantages, even as legal and social attitudes appear to improve. Drawing on seventeen years of ethnographic research and frontline work in England, it offers an intimate and rigorous account of how young people navigate housing precarity, family rejection and uneven access to state support. It shows how sexuality, gender, race, class, disability and religion shape encounters with welfare systems, revealing how well‑intentioned policies can reproduce harm and how celebrated progress in LGBTQ+ rights can obscure the structural conditions that leave many behind. Tunåker argues for a deeper understanding of the “paradox of progress” and its consequences for those at the sharpest edges of marginalisation. The book speaks to scholars and practitioners in socio‑legal studies, legal anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, homelessness and housing research, and anyone concerned with state power and meaningful social change.

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“This scholarly but accessible book makes an important contribution to socio-legal scholarship on homelessness by focussing on LGBTQ+ homelessness and intersectional disadvantage. It demonstrates a breadth of interdisciplinary understanding of its topic, enriched by empirical data and the author’s first-hand experience.  It will provide an essential starting point for future research.” (Professor Helen Carr, University of Southampton, UK)

“In this sorely-needed book, Carin Tunåker has filled a gap in both the social science and policy literatures on what it means to be young, queer, and precariously housed in twenty-first century Britain. She outlines with both ethnographic rigour and compassion the disjuncture between the digital worlds inhabited by many young people who are led to believe that being LGBTQ+ is now a non-issue in the contemporary UK, only to find out that neither their families, their schools, nor national legislation are aligned with these expectations of care and acceptance.” (Dr Melissa Demian, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, UK)

“Carin’s book shines a light on the homelessness emergency that too many young LGBTQ+ young people are living through. It is also a rallying call on how we must rise to meet that challenge. Carin’s expertise and care for the young queer people who akt supports comes through powerfully. This is an important book that proves how far we still have to go for young queer kids to thrive and not just survive.” (Adam Pemberton Wickham, Chief Executive, akt (the only UK national charity providing dedicated support for LGBTQ+ young people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or living in a hostile environment))

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