KITAGAWA, Yukihiko

   

   

    Position

  

         Ph.D., Literature
     Open University of Japan

      

    Speciality

 

         Sociology of Urban Underclass

  

    Research Theme

  

        Empirical study of dynamics of urban underclass and the change of

      form of control over them. Research about the trend of various

      actors on the so-called ‘homeless problem’: administration,

      supporting group, group of homeless people and citizen/residents,

      and the real picture of homeless policies.

  

    Recent Works

  

        Kitagawa, Yukihiko, 2005.2, “Poverty and Exclusion of Men who Live

      Alone: Focusing on the Relationship between Homeless People and

      Welfare Administration,” Iwata, Masami & Akihiko Nishizawa eds.,

      Poverty and Social Exclusion: What Undermines the Welfare Society,

      Tokyo: Mineruva Shoboh, pp.223-242.

  

        Kitagawa, Yukihiko, 2002.11, “Poverty of Homeless People and the

      Formation of Their Group: A Case of Area Around Shinzhuku

      Station,” Koma, Tohru ed., Anthropology of Life, vol.5, Money and

      Life, Tokyo: Yuzankaku, pp.245-267.

  

        Kitagawa, Yukihiko, 2002.3, “Construction of Homeless Problem: A

      Case of Tokyo,” Japanese Association of Sociology for Human

      Liberation, Bulletin of Sociology for Human Liberation, vol.16, no.1,

      pp.161-184.

   

        List of Work of Kitagawa, Yukihiko

         http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~ninja/ List of Literature on Yoseba,

       Homeless People and ‘Homeless Problem’(It is revised irregularly.)

         http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~ninja/homelessbib.htm