Philip Kilbride: Street Children in Kenya

Cover: 9780897898621 | Street Children in Kenya | Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood

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As kinship relationships and support networks across family lines weaken with modernization, economic stressors take a great toll on children. Kenya, like some other nations in Africa and around the globe, has witnessed a rapid rise in street children. The street children in Nairobi come from single parent families which are mostly headed by women. Another group are AIDS orphans. This study documents how street children in Nairobi follow survival strategies including (for boys) collecting garbage, and (for girls), prostitution. Gender is emphasized throughout the book.

Although impoverished families are the most likely to produce street children, not all poor families have their children on the streets. The problem of street children is a complex one that calls for a comprehensive and coordinated policy and program for intervention at all levels and in all sectors of society. Alleviating poverty and rebuilding the family institution should be among the first steps in addressing the problem.

Über den Autor

PHILIP KILBRIDE is Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.

COLLETTE SUDA is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Director, Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi.

ENOS NJERU is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Nairobi,Kenya.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Methodology: Perspectives and Multiple Techniques
Cultural Contexts: For Street Children: Family and Childhood
Nairobi: A City of Contrasts
Kenyan Voices: Focus Group and Survey Responses
Work Patterns, Occupational Spaces, and Survival Strategies
Community Life and Social Organization of Street Children
Personal Profiles
Suffering on the Streets
Applied: Multiple Strategies, Cultural Solutions, and the Way Forward

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780897898621
ISBN-10:	0897898621
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kilbride, Philip Suda, Collette Njeru, Enos
Hersteller:	Praeger
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Philip Kilbride (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.09.2001
Gewicht:	0,284 kg