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Crossing the Line - Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia (Hardcover)
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Crossing the Line - Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia (Hardcover)
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How do people find themselves homeless? Why are the needs of
homeless people almost totally neglected in Russian society? Which
lines do they cross to become complete outsiders? This is the first
book to explore the experience of homeless people in Russia both in
the late Soviet period and during post-socialist transition. It
concentrates on the homeless, or roofless people, living on the
streets or in other places unfit for normal human habitation:
cellars and lofts of apartment blocks; at train stations and
airports; or in rubbish dumps or underground hot water pipes. Using
in-depth interviews, the author documents their routes into
homelessness; the strategies they adopt in using the city space for
survival and building social bonds; and the barriers which block
their escape from the streets. Interviews with people who became
homeless in the 1970s-1980s are contrasted with accounts of those
whose homelessness started after the end of the Soviet regime. The
author places these narratives within the framework of theoretical
perspectives on social-spatial exclusion, interaction between space
and social identity and the regimes of settlement and social
control. case of social-territorial displacement, and to set 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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