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Children in Street Situations

A Concept in Search of an Object

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Authors:
  1. Riccardo Lucchini

    1. Professor Emeritus, University of Fribourg, Corminboeuf, Switzerland

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  2. Daniel Stoecklin

    1. Centre for Children’s Right Studies, University of Geneva, Bramois/Sion, Switzerland

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Daniel Stoecklin, Riccardo Lucchini
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Street Child as an Object

    • Riccardo Lucchini, Daniel Stoecklin
    Pages 17-42

  4. Children in Street Situations: A Complex Reality

    • Riccardo Lucchini
    Pages 43-59

  5. Leaving for the Street

    • Riccardo Lucchini
    Pages 61-87

  6. Survival Strategies

    • Riccardo Lucchini
    Pages 89-103

  7. The Street Career

    • Riccardo Lucchini
    Pages 105-129

  8. The Social Bond and Sociability on the Street

    • Riccardo Lucchini
    Pages 131-160

  9. Girls in Street Situations and Prostitution

    • Riccardo Lucchini
    Pages 161-197

  10. The Agency of Children in Street Situations

    • Daniel Stoecklin
    Pages 199-236

  11. A Rights-Based Approach with Children in Street Situations

    • Daniel Stoecklin
    Pages 237-265

  12. Conclusion

    • Daniel Stoecklin, Riccardo Lucchini
    Pages 267-293

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 295-307
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About this book

This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood. It proposes some insightful perspectives on the current discussion about the rights of children in street situations. It includes a unique selection of texts, which were initially published in French, written by the authors of this volume, on the lives of children in street situations in Latin America and China, that are now available to an English readership. It challenges obstacles, linked to macrosocial issues such as inequalities, images of the child, the separation of public/private spheres, urban dynamics and structural adjustments, as well as to microsocial dimensions such as identity, motivation, and activities that are constitutive of street situations. The book discusses the situations experienced by children, highlighting children’s reflexivity and strategies as social factors, and shedding new light on the debate “agency within structure”.                                               

Authors and Affiliations

  • Professor Emeritus, University of Fribourg, Corminboeuf, Switzerland

    Riccardo Lucchini

  • Centre for Children’s Right Studies, University of Geneva, Bramois/Sion, Switzerland

    Daniel Stoecklin

About the authors

Riccardo Lucchini is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) where he has been Vice-Rector (1971-1975), Head of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (FSES) (1984-1985), President of the Commission on Teaching Evaluation (1999-2003) and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences in FSES (2001-2003). He has carried out extensive research in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Costa Rica and Honduras on topics ranging from the sociology of facism, drug dependency, children living on the streets and domestic violence, on which topics he has published widely.

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

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