Home. This word triggers memories both positive and negative, happy and painful. Every person has a connection with the idea of home, yet many are plagued by a restless spirit or a physical rejection of the place they call home. The feeling of displacement transcends physical displacement as it is experienced by people of various socioeconomic classes, ethnicities, and heritages. Displacement is felt through varying degrees of personal feelings of not-belonging, at times despite the external circumstances of an individual.
Through first identifying the feelings associated with being at home, the general feelings of displacement will be extrapolated from research done on the phenomenology of home. This paper is meant as an introduction to the broad topic of home and homelessness and concludes with a series of thought-provoking questions on how we think and interact with others in relation to these topics.
This paper is submitted as an article for the undergraduate research issue.
Key words: Home, homelessness, displacement
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