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Cast Out

By Paul , Beier , A. L.;Ocobock

Book information

Publisher
Ohio University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780896802629, 0896802620
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1300609 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
African studies;Global issues;Political Science;Va

Description

Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. This is the first book to consider global laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied. Vagrancy and homelessness are used to examine the migration of labor, social and governmental responses, poverty through charity, welfare, and prosecution. Cast Out includes discussions of the lives of the underclass, strategies for surviving and escaping poverty, the criminalization of poverty by the state, the rise of welfare and development programs, the relationship between imperial powers and colonized peoples, and the struggle to achieve independence after colonial rule.

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