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This chapter is concerned with encounters between the urban homeless and certain service providers, particularly those that endeavour to meet the most acute housing needs where these first occur—on the street. The stakes in such encounters can be particularly high: rights, responsibilities, participation and identity are all held in balance across a line of difference and inequality. Any such line can be regarded as marking an edge along which society loses hold and the possibility of citizenship disappears, even as that edge runs (contrarily) through the middle of the city. Fieldwork in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales (UK), provides a basis for further discussion of these issues.
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Hall, T. (2017). Citizenship on the Edge: Homeless Outreach and the City. In: Warming, H., Fahnøe, K. (eds) Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55068-8_2
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