Christopher P. Dum

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Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel

Living in a poverty motel that houses the most marginalized and scrutinized populations in the United States, Dum documents the lived drama of managed stigma, the eruptive proclivities of a caring fragile community of 'social refugees,' the tragedy of public indifference, and the humanity of capitalism's newly rendered 'huddled masses.' It is a story that can only be told through immersive ethnography. -
Timothy Black, author of When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets

It is not often, after forty years in the field, that I actually get excited by a new scholar's tone—that I find it so fascinating, so rich, so theoretically and analytically thick, that I go agog over it. Such is the case with Dum's work. -
Peter Adler, University of Denver
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Press & Reviews

 -Kirkus Starred Review
-Times Higher Education
-Pacific Standard Review

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Awards

-2017 Longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-fiction

Christopher P. Dum
Department of Sociology
Kent State University

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