At Home on the Street People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness

Name: At Home on the Street People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
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ISBN: 9781588267016

ISBN-10: 1588267016

ISBN-13: 9781588267016

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jason Adam Wasserman, Jeffrey Michael Clair

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In their compelling examination of what it means to be truly at home on the street, Jason Wasserman and Jeffrey Clair argue that programs and policies addressing homeless people too often serve only to alienate them. Wasserman and Clair delve into the complex realities of homelessness to paint a gripping picture of individuals¿not cases or pathologies¿living on the street and of their strategies for daily survival. By exploring the private spaces that those who are homeless create for themselves, as well as their prevailing social mores, the authors explain how well-intentioned policies and programs often only widen the gap between the indigent and mainstream society. The result is an…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Publication date: 12/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English