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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825188803321

Autore

Fujimura Clementine K. <1965->

Titolo

Russia's abandoned children : an intimate understanding / / Clementine K. Fujimura with Sally W. Stoecker and Tatyana Sudakova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Publishers, , 2005

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024

ISBN

979-82-16-01034-0

1-282-40980-8

9786612409806

0-313-06801-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StoeckerSally W

SudakovaTatyana

Disciplina

305.23/086/9450947

Soggetti

Abandoned children - Russia (Federation)

Street children - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Entering the Doorway to Abandoned Russia; Chapter 1 Institutionalized, Neglected Orphans; Chapter 2 Victims of a Failed System, or Cold Cultural Beliefs?; Chapter 3 Many Forms of Abandonment; Chapter 4 Moscow's Homeless Children; Chapter 5 The Lure of the City; Chapter 6 Domestic Violence Contributing to Child Homelessness; Chapter 7 Options for the Abandoned Child; Conclusion: Their World Still with Secrets and Sorrow; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fujimura takes us across history and into Russian society, its orphanages and shelters, and along the streets of the nation to see how abandoned children are stigmatized and shunned. Readers come to understand how and why these children, left orphans by death or by choice, form their own culture to find power and to survive. This pioneering work on child abandonment looks at Russian society from a new angle: from the perspectives of abandoned youngsters and their caretakers. Based on direct observation of and interviews with abandoned children, this work shows why any effort to rescue these ch