Life on the Malecón : children and youth on the streets of Santo Domingo
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Life on the Malecón : children and youth on the streets of Santo Domingo
（The Rutgers series in childhood studies）
Rutgers University Press, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Life on the Malecon 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 Malecon 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.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction Structural Forces Impacting Young Lives
Children as Cultural Agents
Structure and Agency on Dominican Streets
Organization of Book
Methods: The Anthropologist as Outreach Educator
1. Outreach Work Living and Sleeping on the Malecon
Crying Wolf
Going Home
The First Hurdle
Telling the Truth
Back on the Conde
Commentary
2. Structural Conditions Finding Panchito
Entering Rehab
Maria's Condition
Going to Prison
Off the Streets
Commentary
3. Friendship and Everyday Violence on the Street Conflict Resolution
Aftermath
Commentary
Conclusion
Notes
Referecnes
Index
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