Cast out : : vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective / / edited by A.L. Beier and Paul Ocobock.

• Superior document: Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Beier, A. L.; Ocobock, Paul R. 1980-
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied. In this ambitious collection, vagrancy and homelessness are used to examine a vast array of phenomena, from the migration of labor to social and governmental responses

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; IntroductionVagrancy and Homelessness in Globaland Historical Perspective; 1: "A New Serfdom"; 2: The Neglected Soldier as Vagrant, Revenger, Tyrant Slayer in Early Modern England; 3: "Takin' It to the Streets"; 4: Vagrant India; 5: Vagrancy in Mauritius and the Nineteenth-Century Colonial Plantation World; 6: Doing Favors for Street People; 7: Vagabondage and Siberia; 8: "Tramps in the Making"; 9: Between Romance and Degradation; 10: The "Travelling Native"; 11: Thought Reform; 12: Imposing Vagrancy Legislation in Contemporary Papua New Guinea; 13: Subversive Accommodations

Select BibliographyContributors; Index