A sociological study of street children in Ghana
Subtitle: victims of kinship breakdown and rural-urban migration
By: Vivian Amantana ; with a foreword by Stephen G. Gibbons
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773416062
Subjects: Social conditions; Street children; Rural-urban migration; Child welfare; Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The known contributors; title: Scope of the study: The greater Accra region. The northern region. Ghana's decentralization and local government program; title: Poverty in Africa: the role of the United Nations: Debt and economic crisis in Africa: a theoretical discourse. The development theory. The dependency theory. The liberal economic theory. Structural adjustment program. International Monetary Fund adjustment program. The World Bank adjustment program; title: The Ghanaian situation: Pre-adjustment economy. Economic reforms. Adjustment and forest resource in Ghana. Adjustment and agriculture in Ghana. Post-adjustment changes; title: Methodology and emerging themes: The Ghanaian street child. The life of the street child. Self definition. Life on urban streets. Instrumental crime. In the midst of exploitation and harassment. Going down a virtual one-way street. Why they migrate. Rural ecology as a push factor. Perception of urban ecology as a pull factor. Family influence and disruption. Primogeniture. Marriage as a cultural influence. Influence of fosterage. Breakdown of kinship fostering as a cultural influence; title: Conclusion.