Getting to Know the Poor

Rosser, Ezra

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Getting to Know the Poor

Ezra Rosser

American University - Washington College of Law

2011

Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, Vol. 14, p. 66, 2011
American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2011-25

Abstract:
This essay explores how we get to know the poor, focusing on the poor voices literature of academics and international institutions. I first examine the challenge of avoiding tokenism while still providing context in portrayals of the poor. The essay then highlights the distance between the poor and the non-poor, showing how this separation, when coupled with negative stereotypes regarding the poor, can negatively impact policy.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 32

Keywords: Poverty, Voices of the Poor, Welfare, Class, Segregation

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Date posted: September 8, 2011

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Rosser, Ezra, Getting to Know the Poor (2011). Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, Vol. 14, p. 66, 2011; American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2011-25. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1923923

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Ezra Rosser (Contact Author)

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Washington, DC 20016
United States

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