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Hobo jungle : a homeless community in paradise / Michele Wakin.
Van Pelt Library HV4506.P37 W35 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakin, Michele, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homeless persons--California--Santa Barbara.
- Homeless persons.
- Shelters for the homeless--California--Santa Barbara.
- Shelters for the homeless.
- California--Paradise.
- California--Santa Barbara.
- Physical Description:
- x, 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2020.
- Summary:
- "For many decades and for many reasons, people who are homeless have chosen to live in camps or other makeshift settings, even when shelters are available. Is this an act of resistance? Of self-preservation? Or are they simply too addicted, too mentally ill, or too criminal to adapt to the rules and regulations of shelter life? To address these questions, Michele Wakin explores the evolution of unsheltered homelessness through an evocative portrait of a jungle encampment that has endured since the Great Depression in one of the most opulent cities on California's south coast"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wakin, Michele, 1970- Hobo jungle
- ISBN:
- 9781626378711
- 1626378711
- 9781626378728
- 162637872X
- OCLC:
- 1119990253
- Publisher Number:
- 40029832967
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