Wednesday, February 11, 2009

I still have a lot of research to do as far focusing in on a certain aspect of homelessness.  I have found that there is a lot of information on all areas resulting in homelessness from the military, domestic abuse, drug/alcohol problems, and many others.  I have yet to visit any field sites.  When I visited a shelter back in my hometown there weren't people inside.  They had a check in time between 7-9 pm and then the residents had to be out the next morning by 7 am.  So that ended up being a bust, but I e mailed a local shelter here in Muncie to see when a good time to stop by would be.  I explained to them what I would be doing and asked if they would be able to accommodate.  

Depending on who I interview at my field sites, I would like to focus on someone who had been in the military or someone who is facing drug and alcohol problems.  I read a statistic somewhere when I was doing research and said that 1 in 4 veterans are homeless.  I couldn't believe that, for a country that says they just love their veterans it sure doesn't look that way.   But also with this being an ethnography I need to look at homelessness as a whole.  So yes I do need to spend more time in my field sites.  

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