Bratislavskí bezdomovci (Empirická sonda)
Homeless People in Bratislava (An Eempiric Probe)

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses at characteristics of homelessness in Bratislava. It gives a brief description of their way of life, living and life strategies. Its background is an intensive fieldwork done by the author in the years 1999 - 2003. Homelessness is a new phenomenon in Slovakia. It has grown out since the end of the 1990 more intensively. Its development is noticeable especially in Bratislava, where number of homeless people has escalated, however it has multiplied also in other cities of Slovakia, where it was unknown in past. The author tries to show that homelessness is a diverse and complex phenomenon and the absenting home is the only objective criterion of classifying someone as a homeless person.

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