Child Street Life

An Inside View of Hazards and Expectations of Street Children in Peru
2015
ISBN: 978-3-319-11721-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 59 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1182 g

Reihe: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research

This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. It looks at some of the conceptual issues and, after analysing why children are in the street and what behaviour and which aspirations they exhibit, deals with the policy issues and lessons to be learned. This brief investigates when and why the transition from children on the street (street-working children) to children of the street (street living children) takes place and elucidates how they survive. It explains the fluidity and the risks involved in any type of child street life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strehl, Talinay

Lieten, G.K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables.- 1 Victims and agency.- 2 Research and overview.- 3 Landing in the streets: a multiplicity of factors.- 4 Settling down in the street.- 5 Street child interventions and policies.- Conclusions and recommendations.- References.

Über Autor(innen)

G. K. Lieten is Professor (ret.) of child labour at the University of Amsterdam and an expert on childhood studies Talinay Strehl earlier worked as a research associate at the Institute for Research on Working Children and presently is child rights officer at Terre des Hommes (NL)