Dead-End Lives : : Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows / / Daniel Briggs, Rubén Monge Gamero.
“Julia” nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe’s most problematic ghettos: she is homeless, wanted by the police, and addicted to heroin and cocaine. She is also five months pregnant and rarely mak...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of photos, figures and tables
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Foreword
- Glossary of terms
- Introduction: Welcome to Valdemingómez
- Politics, ‘democracy’ and the ideology of the postmodern city
- Madrid: History, social processes and the growth in inequality
- Drugs, cultural change and drug markets
- Journeys to dependence
- Life in the city shadows: Work, identity and social status
- The council, police and health services: An impasse to solutions
- Post dependency: What next?
- Not really the conclusion
- Epilogue
- References
- Index