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No home in their native land: Homeless canadians as marginal persons in the social order

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This paper sets out to assess a problem which the author claims has not been given sufficient attention: homelessness. The author observes that the homeless are a disorganised and politically disenfranchised people. This paper analyses the composition of the homeless, and notes the increasing numbers of women, young men, teenagers, and children who are homeless. Effort is made to debunk many of the popular myths associated with homelessness. The real process by which people become homeless is explored and homelessness is shown to be the product of the capitalist system of distributing housing.

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O'Reilly-Fleming, T. No home in their native land: Homeless canadians as marginal persons in the social order. The Journal of Human Justice 2, 55–74 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02637530

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