User:Pouchwarm

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I am a new editor to Wikipedia, but a long time user. I'm a student studying computer science and interested in pursuing a career in law. I enjoy playing the cello and watching live sports.

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Discrimination against homeless people

I am interested in this article because growing up, most of the people in my community looked at homeless people as dirty, lazy burdens on society. They believed that each homeless person was in that position simply because they did not care or attempt to improve their situation. However, I know that there are a lot of circumstances outside of one’s control that can cause a person to become homeless, and, once homeless, the odds are stacked heavily against your favor. This article needs work on citations, writing in a more formal and “encyclopedic tone”, and expanding on several missing sections. It also needs to be expanded to cover homelessness outside of the US, since the topic is not constricted to only within the US.

References

1. Boyd, J. E., Bassett, E. D., & Hoff, R. (2016). Internalized stigma of mental illness and depressive and psychotic symptoms in homeless veterans over 6 months. Psychiatry research, 240, 253-259.
2. Burgoyne, M. (2006). Realigning the corporate-stockholder relationship: facilitating stockholder communications during active proxy solicitations. Vanderbilt Law Review, 59(4), 1383-1412.
3. Frankel, C. (2014). Working With Major Mental Illness in the Community. Social Justice in Clinical Practice: A Liberation Health Framework for Social Work, 58.
4. Herring, C., Yarbrough, D., & Marie Alatorre, L. (2020). Pervasive penality: How the criminalization of poverty perpetuates homelessness. Social Problems, 67(1), 131-149.
5. Kieschnick, H. (2018). A cruel and unusual way to regulate the homeless: Extending the status crimes doctrine to anti-homeless ordinances. Stanford Law Review, 70(5), 1569-1621.
6. Milburn, N. G., Ayala, G., Rice, E., Batterham, P., & Rotheram-Borus, M. J. (2006). Discrimination and exiting homelessness among homeless adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 12(4), 658.
7. Mitchell, D. (1998). Anti-homeless laws and public space: II. further constitutional issues. Urban Geography, 19(2), 98–104. https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.19.2.98
8. Saelinger, D. (2006). Nowhere to go: The impacts of city ordinances criminalizing homelessness. Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y, 13, 545.
9. Shelton, J., DeChants, J., Bender, K., Hsu, H. T., Maria, D. S., Petering, R., ... & Barman-Adhikari, A. (2018). Homelessness and housing experiences among LGBTQ young adults in seven US cities. Cityscape, 20(3), 9-34.
10. Wildeman, S. (2015). Agonizing Identity in Mental Health Law and Policy (Part 1). Dalhousie LJ, 38, 619.

Second-class citizen

I am interested in this topic because although this idea was prevalent centuries ago (and even since the start of humankind), it is still a major issue that we as a society face today. Groups of individuals today are still systematically discriminated against despite the massive efforts for equality in the past few decades and even centuries. This article currently only discusses the definition and some examples of second-class citizens, so I would like to add some elaboration on the historical roots of second-class citizens as well as how the topic developed over time.

References

1. Ali, S., Sensoy Bahar, O., Gopalan, P., Lukasiewicz, K., Parker, G., McKay, M., & Walker, R. (2018). “Feeling less than a second class citizen”: Examining the emotional consequences of poverty in New York City. Journal of Family Issues, 39(10), 2781-2805.
2. Kennedy, S. (2011). Jim Crow guide to the USA: The laws, customs and etiquette governing the conduct of nonwhites and other minorities as second-class citizens. University of Alabama Press.
3. Kubik, W., Bourassa, C., & Hampton, M. (2009). Stolen sisters, second class citizens, poor health: The legacy of colonization in Canada. Humanity & Society, 33(1-2), 18-34.
4. Lee, D. (2020). China’s Peasants as ‘Second-Class Citizen’: Perspective from Political Citizenship. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 27(1), 281-315.
5. Moghadam, V. M. (2003). Engendering citizenship, feminizing civil society: The case of the Middle East and North Africa. Women & Politics, 25(1-2), 63-87.
6. Piatt, B. (1988). Born as second class citizens in the USA: Children of undocumented parents. Notre Dame L. Rev., 63, 35.
7. Rawson, B. (1966). Family life among the lower classes at Rome in the first two centuries of the Empire. Classical Philology, 61(2), 71-83.
8. Román, E. (2006). The other American colonies: An international and constitutional law examination of the United States' nineteenth and twentieth century island conquests. Ediberto Román, The other American Colonies: An International and Constitutional Law Examination of the United States' Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Island Conquests, (Carolina Academic Press, 2006).
9. Sahadeo, J. (2007). Druzhba Narodov or second-class citizenship? Soviet Asian migrants in a post-colonial world. Central Asian Survey, 26(4), 559-579.
10. Wu, J. (2022). Representing language, culture and citizenship to minoritised ethnic groups: the teaching of Mandarin Chinese to Mongolian learners as a second language in China since 1912 (Doctoral dissertation, University of Nottingham).