Russia's abandoned children : an intimate understanding / / Clementine K. Fujimura with Sally W. Stoecker and Tatyana Sudakova
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| Autore: |
Fujimura Clementine K. <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Russia's abandoned children : an intimate understanding / / Clementine K. Fujimura with Sally W. Stoecker and Tatyana Sudakova
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger Publishers, , 2005 |
| London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.23/086/9450947 |
| Soggetto topico: | Abandoned children - Russia (Federation) |
| Street children - Russia (Federation) | |
| Altri autori: |
StoeckerSally W
SudakovaTatyana
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Russia's abandoned children |
| ISBN: | 979-82-16-01034-0 |
| 1-282-40980-8 | |
| 9786612409806 | |
| 0-313-06801-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825188803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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