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family separations and reunifications  

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  • Wars and natural disasters that uproot and displace whole communities produce both homelessness and family dispersal. But in twentieth-century urban America, losses of home and family usually occur under the more insidiously destructive conditions of poverty, discrimination, and disability. [Source: Encyclopedia of Homelessness; Family Separations and Reunifications]

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