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Author Kilbride, Philip Leroy.

Title Street children in Kenya : voices of children in search of a childhood / Philip Kilbride, Collette Suda, and Enos Njeru.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.2308694 K551s 2000    ---  Available
Description xvi, 162 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-158) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction: Kenyan Street Children from a Local and Global Perspective 1 -- 2. Methodology: Perspectives and Multiple Techniques 11 -- 3. Cultural Contexts for Street Children: Family and Childhood 23 -- 4. Nairobi: A City of Contrasts 39 -- 5. Kenyan Voices: Focus Group and Survey Responses 55 -- 6. Work Patterns, Occupational Spaces, and Survival Strategies 67 -- 7. Community Life and Social Organization of Street Children 77 -- 8. Personal Profiles 95 -- 9. Suffering on the Streets 119 -- 10. Applied: Multiple Strategies, Cultural Solutions, and the Way Forward 127.
Subject Street children -- Kenya.
Added Author Suda, Collette A.
Njeru, Enos Hudson Nthia.
ISBN 9780897898621
0897898621
0897895290 (alk. paper)
9780897895293
0897895290

 
    
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