Hobo Jungle : : A Homeless Community in Paradise / / Michele Wakin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Wakin, Michele,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. My Welcome to the Jungle --; 2. A Protected Community: 1940s–1950s --; 3. Power and Protest: 1980s --; 4. Danger and Risk: 2000s --; 5. A Hierarchy of Makeshifts --; 6. Paradise Revisited --; Experiencing Marginal: Fieldwork in the Jungle --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685850975; 9783110783537
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685850975
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michele Wakin.

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.