Life on the Malecón [electronic resource] : children and youth on the streets of Santo Domingo

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서명/저자사항	Life on the Malecón [electronic resource]: children and youth on the streets of Santo Domingo / Jon Wolseth.
개인저자	Wolseth, Jon, 1975-.
발행사항	New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, [2014].
형태사항	1 online resource (xi, 216 pages).
총서사항	The Rutgers series in childhood studies
기타형태 저록	Print version: Wolseth, Jon, 1975- Life on the Maleco?n 9780813562889
ISBN	9781461951278 (electronic bk.) 1461951275 (electronic bk.) 9780813562896 (electronic bk.) 0813562899 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Outreach work -- Structural conditions -- Friendship and everyday violence on the street.
요약	Life on the Maleco?n is a narrative ethnography of the lives of street children and youth living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the non-governmental organizations that provide social services for them. Writing from the perspective of an anthropologist working as a street educator with a child welfare organization, Jon M. Wolseth follows the intersecting lives of children, the institutions they come into contact with, and the relationships they have with each other, their families, and organization workers. Often socioeconomic conditions push these children to move from their homes to the streets, but sometimes they themselves may choose the allure of the perceived freedoms and opportunities that street life has to offer. What they find, instead, is violence, disease, and exploitation -- the daily reality through which they learn to maneuver and survive. Wolseth describes the stresses, rewards, and failures of the organizations and educators who devote their resources to working with this population. the portrait of Santo Domingo's street children and youth population that emerges is of a diverse community with variations that may be partly related to skin color, gender, and class. The conditions for these youth are changing as the economy of the Dominican Republic changes. Although the children at the core of this book live and sleep on avenues and plazas and in abandoned city buildings, they are not necessarily glue- and solvent-sniffing beggars or petty thieves on the margins of society. Instead, they hold a key position in the service sector of an economy centered on tourism. Life on the Maleco?n offers a window into the complex relationships children and youth construct in the course of mapping out their social environment. Using a child-centered approach, Wolseth focuses on the social lives of the children by relating the stories that they themselves tell as well as the activities he observes. -- Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Street youth --Dominican Republic --Santo Domingo. Street children --Dominican Republic --Santo Domingo. Child welfare --Dominican Republic --Santo Domingo. Social work with youth --Dominican Republic --Santo Domingo. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies.
분류기호(DDC)	362.74
언어	영어
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