We Are Not Garbage!

Miki Hasegawa is Lecturer at Tokiwa University in Ibaraki, Japan.

• 1. Introduction  2. A Review of Literature  3. The Rise in Homelessness and Pre-Movement Interaction  4. Brokerage and the Initial Period (February 1994 - January 1996)  5. Repression and the Transitional Period (January 1996 - October 1997)  6. Certification and the Final Period (October 1997- December 2002)  7. Summary and Conclusions.  Appendices.

"Hasegawa’s analysis of the movement challenges much of static resource mobilization and political process theory and contributes to a more dynamic relational perspective....We Are Not Garbage! is important reading for scholars in the fields of social movements and urban inequality, where knowledgeof class conflict in the diverse contexts of a globalizing world is crucial for theoretical and practical purposes."—Matthew Marr, Florida International University, volume 116, number 6 (1 May 2011) of the American Journal of Sociology