Street Children: Cultural Concerns

Keywords

Child-centered research; Children's human rights; Participatory research; Poverty; Street children; Street girls; Youth homelessness

Abstract

This article reviews contemporary literature on the so-called street children. There has been a paradigm shift since the late 1970s in the way social scientists understand and seek solutions to the global problem of street children that abandons misleading categorizations of street children for highly contextualized studies that emphasize the heterogeneity, agency, and gender of the population. This article seeks to understand culturally constructed intersections and the associated material conditions within which children negotiate their own identities. To this end, participatory methods and intervention models help situate the discourse in historical and ethnographic context.

Publication Date

3-26-2015

Publication Title

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition

Number of Pages

533-538

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.64015-1

Socpus ID

85043438518 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85043438518

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