STREET WORKING CHILDREN, CHILDREN'S AGENCY AND THE CHALLENGE OF CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: EVIDENCE FROM MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

Drawing on data from the first large scale survey of street working children in Minas Gerais, Brazil, this article calls for a debate around how to support street working children. Street working children experience multiple human rights abuses; yet anti‐poverty programmes do not target sufficiently...

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Published inJournal of international development Vol. 24; no. 7; pp. 828 - 840
Main Authors Grugel, Jean, Ferreira, Frederico Poley Martins
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.10.2012
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Brazil
Child labor
Child labour
Child welfare
Childhood
Children
Children & youth
Children's rights
Choices
Human Rights
Human rights violations
Labor economics
Minas Gerais
Policy Making
Poverty
Poverty relief
Rights
Social policy
Social support
street work
Studies
Survey data
Surveys
Workers
Brazil
Minas Gerais Brazil
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Summary:Drawing on data from the first large scale survey of street working children in Minas Gerais, Brazil, this article calls for a debate around how to support street working children. Street working children experience multiple human rights abuses; yet anti‐poverty programmes do not target sufficiently their needs and fail to engage with their perceptions of their lives or consider the choices they make as salient for policy making. Using insights from the new sociology of childhood, we argue that policy makers need to come to terms with the agency of child street workers and adjust their policies accordingly. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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ISSN:0954-1748
1099-1328
DOI:10.1002/jid.1852