Overview

Homelessness is obviously a global problem. It has been a major focus of the UN-sponsored conferences Habitat I (1987) and Habitat II (1996). Reports from 144 countries for Habitat I demonstrated that over one billion people worldwide lived without adequate shelter of which at least 40 million were estimated to be homeless. Given the increased austerity conditions imposed by governments and international lending agencies as well as economic and political upheavals, this figure is sure to have increased dramatically. Homelessness and attitudes toward homelessness take different forms in developed and developing countries and from nation to nation, but the global dimensions of homelessness are accentuated by the economic and political disparities among nations. More and more refugees are mixing with displaced people from local communities in an ever-expanding series of global population flows. Understanding and addressing this new development requires more than the narrow, nationally-based studies that comprise most of the literature on the problem of homelessness. The present volume attempts to provide cross-cultural analysis by bringing together scholars from a variety of countries and investigating the operations of certain market economies, state policies, and community practices that contribute to the marginalization of large segments of the world's population as well as private and governmental remediation efforts.

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Author:   Mary Jo Huth ,  J Talmadge Wright
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780275956097

ISBN 10:   0275956091
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   21 May 1997
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction by Talmadge Wright Social Space, Difference, and Homeless Careers The Homeless in Sao Paulo: Spatial Arrangements by Suzana Pasternak Taschner and Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich Homelessness in the Netherlands: Facts and Perspectives by Leon Deben and Dorine Greshof America's New Homeless: Single-Parent Families by Mary Jo Huth Deconstructing ""Undeserving,"" Resisting Normalcy, and Managing Marginality Reinterpreting the ""Undeserving Poor"": From Pathology to Resistance by David Wagner Homelessness and Marginality in Australia: Young and Old People Secluded from Independence by Erica Hallebone Control and Exclusions: The Social Regulation of Homelessness Homelessness and Social Exclusion: The Situation of Single Homeless People in Great Britain by Isobel Anderson Discipline and Border Control in Sweden: Strategies for Tenant Control and Housing Exclusion by Ingrid Sahlin Questioning Assumptions and Possible Solutions to Homelessness The Culture and Reality of Homelessness in the Postmodern City: The Italian Case by Maura de Bernart Charity Begins at Home: A Cross-National View of the Voluntary Sector in Britain, Canada, and the United States by Gerald Daly Index About the Editors and Contributors"

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MARY JO HUTH is Professor of Sociology at the University of Dayton, specializing in urban sociology and the family. Her books include The Urban Habitat: Past Present, and Future. TALMADGE WRIGHT is Associate Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago, and the author of Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes.

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