Presentation Year

2016

Depreciated Participant

Alicia Araceli Flores CarrilloAnthropology, FilmUndergraduate Student

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

In the Fall semester of 2015, Humboldt State University experienced an increase in enrollment unlike any in its history; HSU recruited a total 1,429 incoming freshmen, which joined the already-enrolled student body of 7,370. Of that population, 31% was Hispanic-identified, and 31.3% of that population was from Los Angeles alone. Competitive housing on and off campus left many students in housing insecurity; some endured homelessness for a majority of the semester. This ethnographic research spans the Fall 2015 semester as an attempt to analyze the multi-faceted issue of student homelessness. The increase in enrollment provides an opportunity for analysis in our very racialized present.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

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158

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