`Homeless in Chinatown': Deviance and Social Control in Cardboard City
- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociology
- Vol. 30 (4) , 701-716
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038596030004005
Abstract
Street homelessness (and associated activities such as begging) has become a prominent issue in recent years. This article provides a critical commentary on this phenomenon, informed both by theoretical debates concerning social space, and the author's own fieldwork with street homeless people in Manchester (England). An analysis is provided of temporal and spatial ordering of the homelessness circuit; of survival strategies such as shadow work and sleeping rough engaged in by people living in Cardboard City; and of policing responses to street homelessness and begging.Keywords
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