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Where have all the homeless gone? : the making and unmaking of a crisis /
For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Dislocations ;
volume 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless "crisis" was driven as much by political. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857456960 0857456962 |