Working with street kids: unsettling accounts from the field

Working with street kids: unsettling accounts from the field

Department

Social Research Center (SRC)

Abstract

Kamal Fahmi In Latin America, Africa, Asia and eastern Europe, children and youth living on the streets are commonly referred to using the term street children. In North America and western Europe, the term homeless youth is used interchangeably with that of street children to refer to this population. Since the beginning of the 1980s, this social phenomenon has been increasingly preoccupying policy-makers, researchers and development planners. Despite the widespread concerns and the numerous intervention programmes, the street children phenomenon is escalating persistently worldwide and confusion still remains regarding the definition and conceptualization of these young populations living and surviving under circumstances that most would find unbearable (De Moura 2002; Cree et al. 2002) . This chapter draws on a participatory action research project started in 1993 with street children in Cairo. I was the principal in charge of this project. My responsibilities included overseeing the design and implementation of...

Publication Date

Winter 1-25-2021

Document Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Marginality and exclusion in Egypt and the Middle East

Editors

Ray Bush , Habib Ayeb

ISBN

978-1-78032-084-7

Publisher

Zed Books Ltd

City

London

First Page

169

Last Page

190

Keywords

Middle East, North African Studies, marginalization, exclusion, Egypt, Mubarak

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