Title: At home in the street
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Street children, Children and violence, Abuse of, Social conditions, Services for, Kind, Services aux Enfants de la rue, Kinderen, Conditions sociales, Enfants de la rue, Thuislozen, Homeless Youth, Obdachlosigkeit, Violence envers les enfants de la rue, Services aux, 73.42 age groups, initiation (ethnology), Enfants et violence, Enfants maltraités, Cultural Anthropology, Homeless children, Children, brazil, Children, social conditions, Children, services for, Brazil, social conditions
Places: Northeast Brazil, Northeaast Brazil
LC classification: HV887.B82 N674 1998