Overview
- Highlights the theoretical importance to the latest developments and their implications on the research on the lives of children in street situations
- Provides analyses on children living in street situations from a qualitative perspective, linking obstacles to macrosocial and microsocial dimensions
- Authored by the historical proponents of the new wording ''Children in Street Situations''
Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 21)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Keywords
- Sociology of Childhood
- Children's Life in Street Situations
- General Comment on Children in Street Situations
- Rights of Children in Street Situations
- Child as Rights Holder
- Child Protection Services
- Child Participation Rights
- Children in Street Situations in Latin America
- Image of the Child
- UN Committee for the Rights of the Child
- Survival Strategies for Children in Street Situations
- Girls in Street Situations
- childhood studies
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Daniel Stoecklin is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Centre for Children’s Rights Studies of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His areas of research and teaching are the sociology of childhood, children’s rights, children in street situations, child participation and the capability approach. Following his PhD on children in street situations in China, he has been involved with several international NGO projects in the field of children in difficult situations. He has also worked as an independent expert for the Council of Europe regarding child participation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children in Street Situations
Book Subtitle: A Concept in Search of an Object
Authors: Riccardo Lucchini, Daniel Stoecklin
Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19040-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19039-2Published: 14 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19042-2Published: 14 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19040-8Published: 05 November 2019
Series ISSN: 1879-5196
Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 307
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child Well-being, Human Rights, Childhood, Adolescence and Society