Abstract'Street children'live or work in the cities of many countries, particularly in low-and
middle-income countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia. They are exposed to violence …

Street life hardly has any of the positive aspects which recently have been associated with
'agency'. Living in the streets means submitting to gang culture and gang violence. Once a …

Children living without parents, managing somehow to survive, are common throughout
Latin America. UNICEF has warned that personal and political tragedy looms in Latin …

The characteristics of street children were examined from participant observational data, and
from standardized psychological test scores from a sample of 56 male, Colombian street …

This document contains a bibliography of books, articles, and films which deal with the
phenomenon of street children. The citations in this bibliography came from a literature …

The uniqueness of this study is the combination of a large-scale sociological survey with in-
depth anthropological fieldwork. Around 1,100 street children have been interviewed in two …

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 …

Abstract In most Latin American countries, a substantial proportion of children grow up in
circumstances of extreme deprivation and early independence. These include" street youth" …

The purpose of this study was to observe behaviors of street children in Ciudad Juárez,
Mexico in an effort to gain a better understanding of their conditions. The study's aims were …

We use this expression because we want to show the problem is not just with the children, it
is also with the situations they face. The child “in a street situation” is a social actor, actively …