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Crossing the Line - Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia (Paperback)
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Crossing the Line - Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia (Paperback)
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This pioneering book is the first to explore the experiences of
homeless people in Russia in the late Soviet period and during
post-socialist transition. Through their own stories, it introduces
us to the hidden world of vagrants, itinerant workers and the
street homeless - roofless people living on the streets, in
cellars, in the lofts of apartment blocks, in train stations, in
rubbish dumps or in holes underground. Using in-depth biographical
interviews, Svetlana Stephenson documents the processes of their
displacement; the strategies they adopt for survival and building
social bonds; and the barriers which block their escape from
homelessness. These narratives are placed within a framework of
theoretical perspectives on social and spatial exclusion;
interaction between space and social identity, and the regimes of
settlement and social control. The structural causes of
homelessness are discussed, together with the criminological, legal
and expert discourses that constructed vagrants and the homeless as
'social waste' in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Stephenson
advances our understanding of homelessness as an extreme case of
social-territorial displacement, and sets out its causes and its
individual consequences within the larger social and political
context. She suggests that by using the concept of displacement,
particularly in a historical perspective, it is possible to better
understand the ways in which social systems produce marginality and
homelessness.
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