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Homelessness is an increasing problem in the Arctic - and the same is the case for the capital Nuuk, where Greenland's homelessness is most apparent.
Homelessness in Nuuk has some of the same characteristics as in the rest of the world: due to different forms of inequality (economic, social, etc.), people are attracted to the country's capital in search for better opportunities.
For some, unfortunately, this search ends in homelessness.
At Ilisimatusarfik, the research project The Social Dynamics of Homelessness in Nuuk focuses on this very problem.
The research project focuses on many different aspects - because homelessness in Nuuk is complex. The focus is e.g., on marginalisation, the homeless' own experiences, contact and relationship with public institutions - as well as focusing on health and social factors that can cause homelessness.
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Hjemløshed kan reduceres kraftigt frem mod 2035
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2021
- Subjects: Hjemløshed; Socialpolitik; PIT; Samarbejde; Hjemløsetælling
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: 18
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Greenland’s emerging social conscience – Voluntary food delivery to people experiencing homelessness in Nuuk
Greenland experienced a 5-week lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis. The lockdown effectively took ...
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Year: 2021
- Subjects: Homelessness; Social policy; Crisis; Greenland; Voluntary sector; Covid-19
- Title of journal: Qualitative Social Work
- Volume of journal: 20
- Number of journal: 1-2
- Publisher: Sage Journals
- Place of publication: Los Angeles
- Country of publication: United States
- ISSN number: 14733250
- DOI number: 10.1177/1473325020973209
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2035 tikillugu angerlarsimaffeqannginnermik annikillisitsingaatsiartoqarsinnaavoq
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2021
- Subjects: Hjemløshed; Socialpolitik; PIT; Samarbejde; Hjemløsetælling
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: 18
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Resettlement, urbanization and rural-urban homelessness geographies in Greenland
This chapter reviews historical and contemporary processes of state-sanctioned resettlement and u ...
- Author: Julia Christensen ; Steven Arnfjord
- Editor:
- Editor: Isabelle Côté ; Yolande Pottie-Sherman
- Type: Contribution to book/anthology | Bidrag til bog/antologi
- Year: 2020
- Subjects: Homelessness; Urbanization; Greenland; Social research
- Place of publication: St. John's
- Country of publication: Canada
- Main title & subtitle of host publication: Resettlement Uprooting and Rebuilding Communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and Beyond
- Publishing company: ISER Books – Memorial University
- ISBN number: 9781894725682
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Inuit ataasiakkat ajornartorsiutat kommuninilu suliassat angerlarsimaffeqannginnermut pissutaasutuaanngillat
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2019
- Subjects: Angerlarsimaffeqanngitsoq; Socialpolitikki
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: 48
Hjemløshed rækker ud over individuelle problemer og kommunale opgaver
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2019
- Subjects: Hjemløshed; Socialpolitik; §37; Sociale problemer
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: vol. 61 nr. 48
- Date: 28. november
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Grønlandsk socialpolitik skal være sexet
Kan grønlandsk socialpolitik være sexet? Mit oplæg i kronikken er ja. Det er sexet at arbejde for ...
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2019
- Subjects: Socialpolitik; Grønland
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: 25
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Kalaallit Nunaanni isumaginninnermut politikki alutornaateqassaaq
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2019
- Subjects: Socialpolitikki; Kalaallit Nunaat
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: 25
Hjemløshed i Grønland – og socialpolitiske perspektiver
I Grønland oplever vi som i flere lande i Europa, Canada og Nordamerika en stigning i hjemløs- he ...
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Year: 2019
- Subjects: Socialpolitik; Grønland; Hjemløshed; Social retfærdighed
- Title of journal: Tidsskriftet Grønland
- Volume of journal: 67
- Number of journal: 2
- Publisher: Det Grønlandske Selskab
- Place of publication: København
- Country of publication: Danmark
- ISSN number: 00174556
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Hjemløshed og alkoholmisbrug i et grønlandsk socialpolitisk perspektiv
Problemstillingerne omkring hjemløshed og misbrug er velkendte i den socialpolitiske debat i Grøn ...
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Year: 2019
- Subjects: Socialpolitik; Grønland; Hjemløshed; NoINI
- Title of journal: STOF - Viden Om Rusmidler og Samfund
- Volume of journal: Sommer
- Number of journal: 22
- Publisher: Center for Rusmiddelforskning
- Place of publication: Aarhus
- Country of publication: Danmark
- ISSN number: 1397-338X
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§37-volapyk hjælper slet ikke de hjemløse
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2018
- Subjects: Hjemløshed; Socialpolitik; Boligpolitik
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: 45
- Date: 9. november
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§37-imik paasiuminaatsuliorneq angerlarsimaffeqanngitsunut iluaqutaanngilaq
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2018
- Subjects: Angerlarsimaffeqanngitsoq; Socialpolitikki; Inissarsiortoq
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: 45
Vulnerability and social change in Greenland: How can the Greenlandic Red Cross’ national vulnerability study informs future social action
Previous social and public health research has documented a range of issues concerning vulnerabil ...
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Paper | Paper
- Subjects: Vulnerability; Mixed methods; Greenland; Red Cross
- Name of conference: Social Work Education & Social Development
- Conference city: Dublin
- Conference country: Ireland
- Date: 5. juli 2018
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Øger en manglende grønlandsk hjemløsestrategi antallet af lykkerejser?
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Web publication | Netpublikation
- Year: 2017
- Subjects: Hjemløshed; Socialpolitik; Grønland; Danmark; Lykkerejser
- Web publication type: Artikel
- Website of publication: https://www.kirkenskorshaer.dk
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Hjemløshed i Nuuk – et kritisk sociologisk- og planlægningsperspektiv
Homelessness in Nuuk is a social issue that has been known for several years. In the 1970s Nuuk g ...
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Editor:
- Editor: Birgit Kleist Pedersen; Flemming Nielsen; Karen Langgård ; Jette Rygaard; Kennet Pedersen
- Type: Contribution to book/anthology | Bidrag til bog/antologi
- Year: 2017
- Subjects: Hjemløshed; Nuuk; Social planlægning; Sociologi; Feminisme
- Place of publication: Nuuk
- Country of publication: Grønland
- Publishing company: Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat
- ISBN number: 9788792554932
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"De Søger Trygheden" - Kvinder Ramt af Hjemløshed i Nuuk
Artiklen tager afsæt i et feministisk perspektiv på kvinder, som er ramt af hjemløshed. Med afsæt ...
- Author: Steven Arnfjord; Julia Christensen
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Year: 2017
- Subjects: Hjemløshed; Feminisme; Nuuk; Canada; Kvindehistorie
- Title of journal: Psyke & Logos
- Volume of journal: 1
- Number of journal: 38
- Publisher: Dansk Psykologisk Forlag
- Place of publication: København
- Country of publication: Danmark
- ISSN number: 22462449
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Homelessness across Alaska, the Canadian North and Greenland: A Review of the Literature on a Developing Social Phenomenon in the Circumpolar North
Over the past three decades, homelessness has become an area of significant social concern in Ala ...
- Author: Julia Christensen ; Steven Arnfjord; Sally Carraher ; Travis Hedwig
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Year: 2017
- Subjects: Homelessness; Housing; Urbanization; Health; Alaska; Yukon; Nunavut; Northwest Territories; Greenland
- Title of journal: Arctic
- Volume of journal: 70
- Number of journal: 4
- Publisher: The Arctic Institute of North America
- Place of publication: Calgary
- Country of publication: Canada
- ISSN number: 00040843
- DOI number: 10.14430/arctic4680
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Understanding the social dynamics of homelessness in Nuuk
- Author: Steven Arnfjord; Julia Christensen
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Year: 2016
- Subjects: Homelessness; Nuuk; Social research
- Title of journal: Northern Notes
- Volume of journal: 45
- Number of journal: Spring/Summer
- Publisher: International Arctic Social Sciences Association
- Place of publication: Umeå
- Country of publication: Sweden
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Social planning around homelessness in Nuuk (Greenland) through Intersectoral collaboration - a rural/arctic case
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Paper | Paper
- Year: 2016
- Subjects: Rurality; Social planning; Homelessness; Greenland; Nuuk
- Name of conference: Nordic Ruralities: Crisis and Resilience 4th Nordic Conference for Rural Research
- Conference city: Akureyr
- Conference country: Iceland
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Angerlarsimaffeqannginnerup kingunerinut Nuummi paasisimasaqarneq
- Author: Steven Arnfjord; Julia Christensen
- Type: Poster | Poster
- Year: 2016
- Subjects: Homelessness; Nuuk; Social research; Greenland
- Name of conference: Nunamed
- Conference city: Nuuk
- Conference country: Grønland
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Forskning i Hjemløshed
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Paper | Paper
- Year: 2016
- Subjects: Hjemløshed; Nuuk; Grønland; Tværfaglighed
- Name of conference: Nunamed
- Conference city: Nuuk
- Conference country: Grønland
- Date: 2016
Fra 100 hjemløseboliger til en grønlandsk boligpolitik med skæve boliger
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Feature article | Kronik
- Year: 2016
- Subjects: Socialpolitik; Boligpolitik; Hjemløshed; Grønland; Nuuk
- Name of newspaper: Sermitsiaq
- Volume & number: 42
- Date: 2016
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Researching homelessness - is that politicising science?
- Author: Steven Arnfjord
- Type: Article | Artikel
- Year: 2016
- Subjects: Homelessness; Nuuk; Social research
- Name of newspaper: Ilisimatusarfik news - shaping the Arctic
- Volume & number: November
- Date: 2016
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