Although there has been extensive research on the issue of street and street working
children in developing countries over the last 20 years, few studies specifically investigated …

In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large number of indigenous Maya people have
relocated from their villages to an urban centre where many families, especially mothers and …

Children of the Sun: an Ethnographic Study of the Street Children of Latin America is a book
that describes the subculture of street children inside Latin America, specifically in Mexico …

Children in the developing world work because of the desperate poverty their families face,
itself a result of national and global inequitable distributions of wealth. Unfortunately, the …

The author discusses her inspirations and inquiries for her research on the adolescent
culture in Zinacantan, Mexico. She takes note of the current shift from a more family oriented …

Children enter into street labor because they and their families need money. But the
necesidad (need) that brings children to work on the streets and the income that street labor …

IREWOC, the Amsterdam-based Foundation for International Research on Working Children
intends to generate more theoretically informed research on various aspects of child labour …

Data from ethnographic notes, ethnohistorical documents, and standardized tests given to
Colombian street children illustrated that the children functioned with adequate mental …

The main objective of this chapter is to analyze the limits established between the city as an
adult, masculinized space and the girls who work in the streets of Mexico City. By means of …

By exploring the experiences of over a hundred child traders in Cusco, this research
provides an insight into the more everyday circumstances of children's work in developing …