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Hobo Jungle : A Homeless Community in Paradise /

For many decades and for many reasons, people who are homeless have chosen to live in camps or other makeshift settings, even when shelters are available. Is this an act of resistance? Of self-preservation? Or are they simply too addicted, too mentally ill, or too criminal to adapt to the rules and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wakin, Michele (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. My Welcome to the Jungle
  • 2. A Protected Community: 1940s-1950s
  • 3. Power and Protest: 1980s
  • 4. Danger and Risk: 2000s
  • 5. A Hierarchy of Makeshifts
  • 6. Paradise Revisited
  • Experiencing Marginal: Fieldwork in the Jungle
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Book