Research Catalog

Title

Street children in Kenya : voices of children in search of a childhood / Philip Kilbride, Collette Suda, and Enos Njeru.

Author

Kilbride, Philip Leroy

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Suda, Collette A.
• Njeru, Enos Hudson Nthia.

Description

xvi, 162 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Examines the conditions of street children in the city of Nairobi in Kenya. Includes transcripts of interviews with these children and describes their daily activities and how they organize themselves socially. Examines the violence exercised both against and by street children and describes the activities of organizations that work with them. Discusses policy implications.

Subject

• Street children > Kenya
• Homeless children > Kenya
• Kenya > Social conditions

Genre/Form

• case study.
• étude de cas.
• estudio de casos.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-158) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: Kenyan Street Children from a Local and Global Perspective 1 -- 2. Methodology: Perspectives and Multiple Techniques 11 -- 3. Cultural Contexts for Street Children: Family and Childhood 23 -- 4. Nairobi: A City of Contrasts 39 -- 5. Kenyan Voices: Focus Group and Survey Responses 55 -- 6. Work Patterns, Occupational Spaces, and Survival Strategies 67 -- 7. Community Life and Social Organization of Street Children 77 -- 8. Personal Profiles 95 -- 9. Suffering on the Streets 119 -- 10. Applied: Multiple Strategies, Cultural Solutions, and the Way Forward 127.

ISBN

0897895290 (alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^99046150^

OCLC

• 42391549
• SCSB-10155481

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library