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Rules Vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, And The Right To Housing In The Shelter System, Barret Katuna, Davita Silfen-Glasberg
Rules Vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, And The Right To Housing In The Shelter System, Barret Katuna, Davita Silfen-Glasberg
Societies Without Borders
Sometimes the mechanisms that are in place to protect human rights lead to human rights violations. Drawing on data from ten months of fieldwork at a homeless shelter’s women’s program in a New England city. The authors trace the compromise of human dignity that accompanies one shelter’s effort to help clients fulfill their human right to housing.