At home in the street
Subtitle: street children of Northeast Brazil
By: Tobias Hecht.
Publisher: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge; Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Street children -- Brazil, Northeast -- Social conditions.; Street children -- Abuse of -- Brazil, Northeaast.; Children and violence -- Brazil, Northeast.; Street children -- Services for -- Brazil, Northeast.
Description: Based on innovative fieldwork among street children and activist organizations in Brazil's Northeast, this book changes the terms of the debate, asking not why there are so many homeless children in Brazil, but why - given the oppressive alternative of home life in cramped favela shacks - there are in fact so few. At the center of this book are children who play, steal, sleep, dance, and die in the streets of a Brazilian city.

But all around them figure activists, politicians, researchers, "home" children, and a global crisis of childhood.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-255) and index.