A garland of bones : child runaways in India /

An intimate portrait of India's child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Steinberg, Jonah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Subjects:
Runaway children > India.
Street children > India.
Enfants fugueurs > Inde.
Enfants de la rue > Inde.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Runaway children
Street children
India
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; ONE: Nabil's Predicament An Introduction; TWO: Home and the World Village and Child Up Close; THREE: Of Crisis, Calamity, and Village Fabrics; FOUR: Death and the Urchin; FIVE: Runaway Train Railway Children and Normative Spatialities; SIX: Remand to Rehabilitation Urban Institutions and Rural Children; SEVEN: Concluding Thoughts, Final Words, and Big Pictures Indian Runaways in Larger Frames?; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

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