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Philippe Bourgois has conducted fieldwork in Central America (Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Belize) and in the urban United States (East Harlem--New York and San Francisco).

In Central America his research addresses the political mobilization of ethnicity, immigration and labor relations, political violence, popular resistance, and the social dislocation of street children. His research in the United States confronts inner-city social suffering and critiques the political economy and cultural contours of U.S.

apartheid. He is also addressing gender power relations, and the intersections between structural and intimate violence.

Philippe bourgeois biography samples

His most recent work focuses on substance abuse, violence, homelessness, and HIV-prevention.

Dr. Bourgois is currently conducting participant-observation fieldwork in the shooting encampments of homeless heroin injectors for an HIV-prevention study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse: "The Logics of HIV Risk Among Homeles