STREETS OF THE CHILDREN: STREET-WORKING CHILDREN PHENOMENON IN TURKEY
Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2011, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
This study is a descriptive one that tries to describe and understand the socio-demographiccharacteristics and solidarity networks of the street-working children, and meaning they attribute totheir working on the street. The research was conducted as an exhaustive one between 2006- 2009on 931 street working children in eight cities of Turkey. This study claims to be a uniquecontribution to the literature on street-working children focusing on the strengths of the childrensuch as the solidarity networks they establish and exploring the meaning they attribute to the placethey turn into a space. These two are also the factors that make Turkey distinctive in terms of streetworking children.
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Bekir Kocadas, Özge Özgür
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