MORE THAN REFUGE
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
- Vol. 24 (4) , 373-404
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124196024004001
Abstract
This article examines the social dynamics of life inside a public shelter for homeless men in New York City. It shows how distinctive forms of association—in particular, a ganglike body of elite residents and marriages between residents—are the product of the nature and exigencies of life in the shelter and how the requirements of such a life may limit possible trajectories out of the shelter. Shelters, it concludes, do a lot more than provide a bed for the night.Keywords
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