Both EU citizens and third-country nationals who are or become unsheltered or homeless are strongly stigmatized due to frequently inadequate or non-existent social welfare entitlements and, therefore, live very precarious everyday lives. For example, this is demonstrated by the fact that these people have a significantly higher at-risk-of-poverty rate than people with Austrian citizenship.

For this reason, the project workshop designed here addresses these people’s situation more closely. It seeks to answer questions pertaining to individual experiences and the affected persons’ desire for change as well as potential support offers or social welfare entitlements. In any case, the objective is to develop concrete perspectives for change. The research questions are to be addressed via a mixed-methods approach with a focus on participatory research methods. At the same time, the author’s contacts to various institutions working with the described group of persons can be used as well. Unsheltered and homeless EU citizens and third-country nationals remain to be subject to highly precarious circumstances. The constantly unchanged affectedness of this group underpins the relevance of this project workshop.