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- Amazon.co.jp ・本 (317ページ)
- / ISBN・EAN: 9784879842466
作品紹介・あらすじ
寄せ場、ダンボール村、自立支援、移民、女性、抵抗、襲撃……これらを論じることで、現代社会に張り巡らされた埒（らち）の存在を可視化する試み。７篇の論文に関連コラム・年表を付した。
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(スエーデンの大学院で学んでいた時分に、学内のポータルにアップしていたものを引っ越しています）
The book is comprised of 7 essays about homelessness. All essays deal with (at least in part) homeless people and places in Tokyo and they at least made me be aware of the fact that I have feelings/sympathy submerged in my sub-consciousness which can come up to the conscious level.
Basically the welfare system to help homeless people in Japan is made to assist them to become “independent” and “self-supportive”. Some essays claims the system works just as an apparatus to select those who can go back to labor work from those who can not (and the latter is to be send back to the streets), others claim that the liberty and diversity of cities are being robbed of by policies to get rid of homeless people from the streets. Some attacks hypocrisy of policies which on the surface try to support homeless people but in reality keep them stay where they are (and just wasting taxpayers money while keeping them =bureaucrats busy and help their money= our money in a safer place for their future pensions)
Homelessness and related policies are often discussed from the perspective of male with their having ability to labor and going back to labor workforce. One essay, however, deals with female homeless people.
In her article “Jyosei homeless to street identity- kanojyono muryokusaha teikoudearu” (Female homeless and street identity- their powerlessness is resistance), Moon Jeongsil (Chubu Gakuin University) claims some female homeless strategically remain powerless to keep them away from welfare system.
She takes an approach of street interviews where she casually approaches her targets and establishes relationships with them. They are not systematic interviews, but only listening to what they want to say or willing to say. Common factor among female homeless is all of them have “empty” periods in their life courses and they would never tell about them. Moon says if they were to tell about those periods, their identities will be collapsed.
Some survive as prostitutes and others survive as “housewives”. Moon pays more attention to the latter.
Moon reflects on the meaning of being a female and on the street. She observes in many cases a “husband” often goes to daily labor while a “wife” stays at their cardboard/plastic sheet shack. She claims wives strategically place themselves in a position farthest from a workplace and social system as a whole and it is the way for them to stay away from (even remembering) their “empty” periods and things they experienced in the system. By making themselves completely powerless, Moon observes wives are fully aware of their oppressed, structurally and socially constructed positions as homeless and as female.
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