In this article, A Winter’s Tale, the author used the snow to reveal one of the most visible impacts of social change by globalization - homelessness - that is faced by thousands of poor Russian families in Moscow with a large number of them belonging to migrant workers from neighboring counties. Many of these homeless people lose their lives to hypothermia in the streets from death or accidents. The author gave several reasons as he paid particular attention to why these homeless people were not given opportunities to earn wages that would enable them to obtain life chances that other Russians have. The first was that the actual numbers of homeless in Moscow are put at a low figure when the numbers are higher than in reality. This was a way to deflect from the problem of homelessness. The second was how the attitudes of Russians in general still reflected the old Soviet law that banned homeless from any recognition, were imprisoned or expelled from the cities. The ban was lifted in the early 1990‘s. The third is how this old attitude was still enforced by the very people who were in position to help the people no matter their circumstances. The police force freely waged their own version of equality and justice through brutalities, bribes, and countless illegal enforcement of government decrees set to protect and accommodate the homeless communities. It was these tactics that most often placed the migrant workers without homes or deportations. This article conveyed a desperate and dangerous gap in the system (police) where it is crippling the system by not adhering to the laws set by their own government. According to an expert on migration of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the police offered 70% of the problems with homelessness. That is just dehumanizing to say the least.
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