In Search of Home


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In Search of Home explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty – rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities. It examines the politics of the poor focusing on law, citizenship and gender. Contesting the assumption that illegalities emerge due to lack of legal rights to property, this ethnography of the everyday narrates how the rehabilitated poor despite legal residence experience 'citizenship in limbo', suspended between an illegal past and an imagined future of full citizenship. The book details the flexible governance of such neighbourhoods, studying how the state produces illegalities, and how state institutions and actors stand to gain. By looking at how systemic corruption draws urban poor groups into webs of exchanges with the state, de-radicalising and co-opting the poor, it exposes the gendered underbelly of urban poor struggles, uncovering the role women play in eliciting the paternalism of the state.




In Search of Home


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In 1990 the author was visited by Jesus and was given a message for the world. This experience began her search for Home a place we are all from and will eventually return to. This book is a compilation of her revelations, inspirational stories, personal pearls of wisdom and step by step exercises to remember who you are and from whence you came. Ancient wisdom in modern day form. This book is bursting with knowledge to light your way home. Carol believes that as each person learns about themselves their contribution is essential for the evolution of all of humanity. Her goal is to tell you what she has learned thus far to help you as she has been guided by those before her. A must have for the soul seeker.




Migration and the Search for Home


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This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life, yet migrants’ experience tells a different story: what happens to the notion of home, once migrants move far away from their “natural” bases and search for new ones, often under marginalized living conditions? The author analyzes in how far migrants’ sense of home relies on a dwelling place, intimate relationships, memories of the past, and aspirations for the future–and what difference these factors make in practice. Analyzing their claims, conflicts, and dilemmas, this book showcases how in the migrants’ case, the sense of home turns from an apparently intimate and domestic concern into a major public question.




The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees


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This book explores the role of “home” in the lives of displaced people, including voluntary and forced migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, and temporary workers. For displaced people, home is something lost, longed for, and sometimes found anew. It is a community of people in an environment of relationships and a physical dwelling that provide a sense of safety, security, hope, and belonging. Much of the efforts of refugees, migrants and exiles are devoted to rebuilding a home, through a combination of personal effort and collaboration with the political and social environment of the host community. Aguirre and Argandoña bring together an interdisciplinary collection of contributors to analyse these challenges through the lenses of economics, law, sociology, psychology, communications, management and political science. The book offers numerous suggestions for assistance aimed not only at the short-term problems of displaced people, but also at ensuring their human dignity. This volume will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of migration and of public policy related to the handling of migrants.







Stop and Search


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This book reviews the key controversies surrounding the police power to stop and search members of the public. It explores the history and development of these powers, assesses their effectiveness in tackling crime and their impact on public trust and confidence as well as on-going attempts at regulation and reform.




In Search of Love


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This book depicts and narrates the village life including their desire at the early age. It is directly and personally visualized the village child life. The Author has written this book in short stories. There are different characters with different interest, such as Love, Studies, Game, wrestling, Acting and playing different type of Music. Whether they got their target fulfilled or not, did they try with their best and real strengths to achieve their goals. The Author has tried to his best to establish the truth. There are no any imaginations in his stories. He has seen the changes in the life in different way in different age and in different place. The character of child keeps on changing with the environment around them. Some of us are very lucky; someone get push back from someone but most of us have to struggle to find the good life. Life goes on and on time moves as the per the nature clock. Some of us blame ourselves or to their parents and relatives but most of us blame to the God. There is no end of blames. Everyone has to complete his term and proceed back. In our life decision is more important. Result of the decision comes in future. Result depends on the right or wrong decision taken. Some people take very fast decision. His decision may produce fruits or not. It depends upon his write or wrong decision. Few people take decision only after verifying. It takes long time and he may lose the opportunity. Other does not take any decision. He never achieves any success in his/her life time. A person who takes fast decision with strong determinations, he achieves all successes in his life.




In Search of Moon River


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This is the journey of the author from the time she meets her soulmate, Manny Twofeathers, until the time of his passing. Their sixteen years together, the highs and the lows, the adventures and the tragedies. All the while she suffers from bi-polar disorder and it examines how she overcomes episodes, including one instance where she very nearly loses it all. The doctors where thinking of sending her to one of those places where you dont come out. Some highlights of the book are after being a single entrepreneur at thirty-three, she ends up being a mother of six children before knowing Twofeathers a year! Their first book he wrote sold to Hyperion publishing for $72,000 advance, which was unheard of for a first time author. A fascinating read, it moves quickly through the inside view of a love story that is hard to put down.




Relations of Rescue : The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939


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In this study of late nineteeth-century moral reform, Peggy Pascoe examines four specific cases--a home for Chinese prostitutes in San Francisco, California; a home for polygamous Mormon women in Salt Lake City, Utah; a home for unmarried mothers in Denver, Colorado; and a program for American Indians on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska--to tell the story of the women who established missionary rescue homes for women in the American West. Focusing on two sets of relationships--those between women reformers and their male opponents, and those between women reformers and the various groups of women they sought to shelter--Pascoe traces the gender relations that framed the reformers' search for female moral authority, analyzes the interaction between women reformers and the women who entered the rescue homes, and raises provocative questions about historians' understanding of the dynamics of social feminism, social control, and intercultural relations.