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Making Better Lives - Home Making Among Homeless People in Paris 10.17863/CAM.21752 Lenhard, Johannes Felix Laidlaw, James How do homeless people make homes on the street? Over two years of fieldwork in Paris, I observed the daily practices and routines of people who are sleeping rough. How do they earn money through begging? What factors do they consider when finding and making shelters? I followed people through different institutional settings – a homeless day centre, a needle exchange, a centre for people with alcohol problems and ultimately also a homeless shelter – on their way away from the street always documenting the conflicts between their short term – drugs and alcohol – and long term hopes. I observed the ways which they were supported by assistants socials and other institutional actors in their struggle to create spaces of reflective freedom. I argue that their efforts were about home making and as such about making a better life first on and then away from the street. University of Cambridge 2018-05-19 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) en https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274609 https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/1fc4e8e4-cdd1-4693-8b92-2440d3277892/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/1697e7c3-a0ea-4260-a85c-7beb34b89357/download d98d28f91f1a3898eec09a0dba24d99a https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ Homelessness Anthropology Inequality Good Life