Crossing the Border: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers - Couverture souple

Rowe, Michael

 
9780520218833: Crossing the Border: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520218833 ISBN 13 : 9780520218833
Editeur : University of California Press, 1999

Synopsis

The relationship between the homeless and the social service community marks a border where the disenfranchised meet the mainstream of society. "Crossing the Border", the first book-length study of outreach work to the mentally ill homeless, uses ethnographic tools to examine encounters at this border. Michael Rowe provides a rich picture not only of a particular group of homeless people, but also of the complicated interactions between the marginalized and those who try to help them. As it examines both the dilemmas and opportunities of outreach work to the mentally ill homeless, this compelling study asks us to consider the broader questions about how we relate to the poor and other marginal persons at the border of society. The author's personal encounters with the homeless as Director of the New Haven ACCESS outreach project, his interviews with fifty homeless persons for this study, and his numerous interviews with outreach staff, provide an invaluable personal perspective. In this study, Rowe draws a collective portrait of the homeless whom he interviewed and observed, discusses the outreach workers in depth, examines transactions from the perspective of each party, and finally, places these encounters within the social and institutional contexts that shape them. Rowe's writing is accessible and punctuated with many vivid anecdotes. As "Crossing the Border" shows, encounters between the homeless and outreach workers represent a measure of where we will set our social boundaries and what standard of living we will accept for those who live at that boundary.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Rowe is Assistant Clinical Professor of Sociology in the Yale University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520218833
ISBN 13 
9780520218833
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
206
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780520218314: Crossing the Border: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520218310 ISBN 13 :  9780520218314
Editeur : University of California Press, 1999
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