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City survivors: Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy) by Anne ; Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion Power; Project Muse is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Seen through the eyes of parents, mainly mothers, City survivors tells the eye-opening story of what it is like to bring up children in troubled city neighbourhoods. The book provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community, regeneration and public services. City Survivors is based on yearly visits over seven years to two hundred families living in four highly disadvantaged city neighbourhoods, two in East London and two in Northern inner and outer city areas. Twenty four families, six from each area, explain over time from the inside, how neighbourhoods in and of themselves directly affect family survival. These twenty four stories convey powerful messages from parents about the problems they want tackled, and the things that would help them. The main themes explored in the book are neighbourhood, community, family, parenting, incomes and locals, the need for civic intervention. The book offers original and in-depth, qualitative evidence in a readable and accessible form that will be invaluable to policy-makers, practitioners,

Who reads City survivors: Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods (CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy)?

Author

Anne ; Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion Power; Project Muse

Publisher

Policy Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847423016

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Gender Studies