The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas

by Patricia Márquez

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What does it mean to be a child or an adolescent growing up on the streets or in a state institution? How do children define their everyday lives in the midst of global processes? This ethnographic study situates childhood and adolescence as social forms within the changing family and political structures of the complex urban world of Caracas, Venezuela.

The presence of youngsters on the streets of Caracas embodies social contradictions...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804745528

ISBN13:9780804745529

Release Date:December 2002

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:292 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 7.7"

Related Subjects

Children's Books Children's Studies Cultural History Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences South America Specific Demographics Venezuela

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