Introduction Youth Homelessness
Competing representations of Youth homelessness: Media Vs. Advocacy Discourses Introduction
Youth homelessness in Canada is a paradoxical reality: although the country has the high GDP, the large economy and the high consumption rate in the North America and even the whole world, there are still a large number of young people who have to face the lack of basic living conditions, such as employment and housing. Today, youth homelessness, which is recognized as a serious social issue in Canada, has been fiercely debated in various scholars and media. However, while recognizing and analyzing youth homelessness in Canadian society, different parties always demonstrate their own arguments from different views of point or through a variety of representations. This paper will compare different representations of youth homelessness in the city of Vancouver in various language carriers including scholarly articles and the websites of non-government or non-profit organizations.
Methodology
This paper is a comparative study. The paper tries to compare different representations of youth homelessness in as scholarly articles and the websites. Through the comparison, this paper shows discussion and findings shown in following sections.
Discussion and Findings
There are many non-government or non-profit organizations which make great efforts to prevent youth homelessness in Canada. And, these organizations usually take advantage of their websites to represent the issues of youth homelessness. For example, according to the statistics of Covenant House Vancouver (2012), currently, there are over 500 - 1000 young people who are in a homeless situation in Vancouver. This is only a conservative estimate because this number does not cover up the hidden homeless young people who live in deplorable conditions, sleep on park benches, or bounce from home to home. Based on previous experience in promoting the decrease of youth homelessness in Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation
Youth homelessness in Canada is a paradoxical reality: although the country has the high GDP, the large economy and the high consumption rate in the North America and even the whole world, there are still a large number of young people who have to face the lack of basic living conditions, such as employment and housing. Today, youth homelessness, which is recognized as a serious social issue in Canada, has been fiercely debated in various scholars and media. However, while recognizing and analyzing youth homelessness in Canadian society, different parties always demonstrate their own arguments from different views of point or through a variety of representations. This paper will compare different representations of youth homelessness in the city of Vancouver in various language carriers including scholarly articles and the websites of non-government or non-profit organizations.
Methodology
This paper is a comparative study. The paper tries to compare different representations of youth homelessness in as scholarly articles and the websites. Through the comparison, this paper shows discussion and findings shown in following sections.
Discussion and Findings
There are many non-government or non-profit organizations which make great efforts to prevent youth homelessness in Canada. And, these organizations usually take advantage of their websites to represent the issues of youth homelessness. For example, according to the statistics of Covenant House Vancouver (2012), currently, there are over 500 - 1000 young people who are in a homeless situation in Vancouver. This is only a conservative estimate because this number does not cover up the hidden homeless young people who live in deplorable conditions, sleep on park benches, or bounce from home to home. Based on previous experience in promoting the decrease of youth homelessness in Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation