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This book has already proved itself as a course adoption leader in Childhood Studies. All of the strengths of the First Edition have been retained. The book is comprehensive and judged with the needs of students in mind. It is a model of clarity and precision and has been acknowledged as such in reviews and course feedback. The new edition thoroughly revises old entries and adds new ones. The book is the most accessible, relevant student introduction to this expanding, interdisciplinary field. It is an indispensable teaching text and an ideal prompt for researchers.
Street Children
Street Children
Children who live and/or work on the street.
While the definition above suffices as an introduction to this concept, it is also in some ways misleading, since defining street children is intimately linked to the different ways in which such children are conceptualised. And as Gigengack (2008) argues, these conceptualisations vary in relation to the ways in which such children are ‘problematised’ – as either a ‘problem’ to be dealt with by the State or as a ‘cause’ to be taken up by NGOs and other activists seeking to help those children who live and work on the street. These different representations are revealing, he suggests, of the implicit transgressive comparison with ‘normal’ childhood that the phenomenon of street children engenders.
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