Dead–End Lives – Drugs and Violence in the City Sh adows Briggs Hardback

Dead-End LivesDrugs and Violence in the City Shadows\nAuthor(s): Daniel Briggs, Rubn Monge Gamero\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781447341680, 978-1447341680\nSynopsis\nJulia nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europes most problematic ghettos: she is homeless, wanted by the police, and addicted to heroin and cocaine. She is also five months pregnant and rarely makes contact with support services. \n\nWelcome to the city shadows in Valdemingmez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence where the third world meets the Wild West. Briggs and Monge entered this area with only their patience, some cigarettes and a mobile phone and collected vivid testimonies and images of Julia and others like her who live there. This important book documents what they found, locating these people's stories and situations in a politic.