A Nomadic Life N Higher Education

The Fragile Margins of Survival

This book introduces the reader to the invisible ecosystem of campus poverty, an environment where students attend lectures by day and sleep in cars, couch-surf, or inhabit emergency shelters by night. The text shifts focus away from outdated tropes of "poor budgeting" or individual failure, reframing student homelessness as a predictable, structural consequence of an economy that expanded access to enrollment without expanding the material safety nets needed to sustain it.