Street life under a roof : youth homelessness in South Africa

Street life under a roof : youth homelessness in South Africa / Emily Margaretten.

Point Place stands near the city centre of Durban, South Africa. Condemned and off the grid, the five-story apartment building is nonetheless home to a hundred-plus teenagers and young adults marginalised by poverty and chronic unemployment. In this work, Emily Margaretten draws on ten years of up-c...

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Main Author: Margaretten, Emily
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, ©2015.
Series:Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
Subjects:
Youth, Black > South Africa.
Marginality, Social > South Africa.
Homeless youth > South Africa.
Homeless teenagers > South Africa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Homeless teenagers
Homeless youth
Marginality, Social
Youth, Black
Stadtforschung
Armut
Wohnheim
Männliche Jugend
Weibliche Jugend
Sexualität
Lebenswelt
South Africa
Südafrika
Durban
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Table of Contents:
  • Shelter hopping
  • Standing (K)in
  • Love, betrayal, and sexual intimacy
  • Love, respect, and masculinity
  • Residing with the spectral
  • Homecomings.

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