San Antonio College Library

"Researcher Clementine K. Fujimara takes us across history, into Russian society, its orphanages and shelters, and along the streets of the nation to see how abandoned and orphaned children are stigmatized and shunned. We also come to understand how and why these children form their own culture to find power and to survive. This pioneering work on child abandonment looks at Russian society from a new angle: from the perspectives of abandoned youngsters...