Sharma, Rachana.  <br/><br/>
From 'Home' to 'State after care home': Experiences of violence, homelessness and rehabilitation  

 - IASSI Quarterly: Contributions To Indian Social Science    
 - 39(1), Jan-Mar, 2020: p. 42-57 
<br/><br/> Statistically speaking, there has been a sturdy increase in the number of homeless girls and<br/>women in India. This article investigates the issue of in-house violence and homelessness<br/>among young girls and women in India. Also, it aims to map their transition from their<br/>Home to the State After Care Homes, and present the forms of distress they undergo<br/>within these institutions. To examine this, an ethnographic study of a State After Care<br/>Home for homeless women was performed. The study focuses on the lived experiences<br/>of homelessness and rehabilitation of the women within these homes. On the whole, the<br/>paper points that ‘Care’ as a ‘Right’ has been a continually undermined and undervalued<br/>feature of women’s life as a result of which they experience multifarious forms of violence<br/>inside and outside their homes. As the number of homeless population and requirement<br/>of shelter homes are increasing, these formal institutions and public arrangements must<br/>respond to the changing values and attitudes in the larger society- Reproduced  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Home, homelessness, state ofter core, home, Violence, Women