Reviews
Kovats-Bernat has set the bar high with this book. I encourage anyone, within or outside academia, who has an interest in the welfare of street children in counties like Haiti, to read this book.
--The Journal of Haitian Studies
" Kovats-Bernat's penetrating analysis of street childeren in Port-au-Prince joins a growing body of contemporary and relational ethnographies that not only take the readers to the street but also confront the social relations between street people, the state, and the larger political economy. Sleeping Rough is a book both raw and alive. Making the important link between the street child and a global system mutated by colonialism, military intervention, arms-trafficking, debt and structural adjustment, Kovats-Bernat has created a brilliant ethnography: compassionate, provocative, handsomely illustrated with his own photographs and yet always aware of the larger social, political, and economic context."
--Journal of Anthropological Research
" Fascinating insights into a world at once so close and so distant from the shores of the United States."
--Latin American Politics and Society
"Fascinating yet challenging to consume. Confronts sensibilities and invites introspection. Kovats-Bernat engages with his subject matter, others in his field, and the reader, and he does so in a stimulating and inviting manner."
--Journal of Latin American Studies
"An original contribution to the anthropology of Haiti. It is one of the few ethnographies that focus on Port-au-Prince. Recommended to anyone interested in issues of social inequality, political agency, human development, and urbanism in the Caribbean. It provides insight into an important, and relatively unknown, aspect of current Haitian existence."
--New West Indian Guide