Working with the homeless: The case of a non-profit organisation in Shanghai:

摘要: This article addresses a two-pronged objective, namely to bring the fore much neglected social issue of homelessness, and explore dynamics state-society relations in contemporary China, through case study non-profit organisation (NPO) working with homeless Shanghai. It shows that largely invisible homelessness Chinese cities was substantially due exclusionary institutions, such as combined household registration ‘detention deportation’ systems. Official policy has become more supportive since 2003 when latter replaced government-run shelters, but we argue NPO demonstrates potential for enhanced longer-term support enabling active citizenship people. By analysing ways which offers services collaboration partnership public (and private) actors, also transformations post-reform China changes within state civil society have significant...