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- Title
Disaster Through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids.
- Authors
Parnaby, Patrick
- Abstract
Over the past decade, anti-panhandling bylaws have been adopted in several Canadian cities including Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Montreal. This article examines the rhetorical processes used to construct "squeegee kids"--homeless youths who clean car windshields for money--as a social problem requiring a law and order resolution in Toronto. Using materials gathered from newspapers, magazines, government documents, and official reports, it is argued that the implementation of The Safe Streets Act depended on anti-squeegee claimants' use of disaster rhetoric and the rhetorical disassociation of squeegee kids from the larger homeless population. These processes are further discussed in relation to emerging trends in neo-liberal forms of governance.
- Subjects
CANADA; HOMELESS youth; AUTOMOBILE windshields &; windows; SOCIAL problems; BY-laws; ADMINISTRATIVE acts
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2003, Vol 28, Issue 3, p281
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341925