This paper explores the diverse ways that children and young people negotiate their social identities and construct their life course trajectories on the street, based on ethnographic research with street children in Tanzania. Drawing on the concept of a ‘street career’, I show how differences of age, gender and ethnicity intersect with the time spent on the street, to influence young people’s ...

BACKGROUND Street children are a global phenomenon, with an estimated population of around 150 million across the world. These children include those who work on the streets but retain their family contacts, and also those who practically live on the streets and have no or limited family contacts. In Pakistan, many children are forced to work on the streets due to health-related events occurrin...

Since the start of the Ž nancial crisis in late 1997, there has been a signiŽ cant increase in the numbers of children living and working on the streets of Indonesia, including a dramatic rise in street girls. All street children are marginalised by the state and mainstream society, and this is re ected in the marginality of the spaces they occupy in the streets. In Indonesia, street children ...

During the past ten years, Tanzanian cities have undergone rapid changes that have transformed the urban environment as well as the lives of millions of people who live in this setting. The impact of these changes is affecting almost everybody, particularly the urban poor. One of the growing social problems associated with these changes is the tremendous increase in unsupervised children either...

conclusions the health status and life situation of street children in this region do not seem appropriate and earning money is the most important motivation to being a street child. unlike violence, the tendency to substance abuse, especially cigarette smoking, was pretty high. on the other hand, the lower age of illicit drug abuse among these children in this study indicates a higher vulnerab...

AIMS To describe the family background of street children in Aracaju, Brazil, their parents' perception of street life, and the reasons for the high prevalence of males observed among street children. METHODS Cross sectional study using semi-structured interviews and qualitative focus group discussions with parents of purposively selected index street children. RESULTS Fifty eight families ...

BACKGROUND Social communication deficits are prevalent amongst children with anxiety disorders; however whether they are over-represented specifically among children with Social Anxiety Disorder has not been examined. This study set out to examine social communication deficits among children with Social Anxiety Disorder in comparison to children with other forms of anxiety disorder. METHODS P...