Research On The Salvation Of Female Vagrants And Mendicants In Cities

As a special way to make a living, begging and loitering in the street is one kind of social phenomenon both at home and abroad. In 2003, the Chinese government abolished the old policy and carried out the new policy which realized the evolvement of the Social Assistance Policy. This evolvement has made certain progress, but it didn't demonstrate that the number of the vagrants and mendicants in cities decreases according to the recent statistical data. There are a lot of female beggars among these vagrants and mendicants. The female, children and the old are the vulnerable group for their physiological and psychological factors. So they need our special protection, especially the female beggars. Roaming about for a long time in the society, they confront with more difficulties and troubles than male beggars and their living conditions are very terrible. But there are few domestic study on female beggers at present, and some articles just briefly mention it in the analysis of the whole Vagrant group. This article generalizes the characteristics of the female beggar, the special experience during their roaming time and the special behavior when they stay in the salvage station by observing and interviewing them; then point out the questions of rescuing the female beggar such as ignoring the gender difference; lacking the professional method; faulty network system of salvation and the low level of socialization. According to these, the author suggests that we should pay attention to the special needs of the female to supplement and perfect the social assistance policy, change the backward ideas and attempt to use the method of social work, encourage the participation of the community and nongovernmental organizations to improve the level of socialization.