TY - CHAP
T1 - Biographical interviews as emotional encounters in street youth’s lives
T2 - the role of research in facilitating therapeutic intervention
AU - van Blerk, Lorraine
AU - van Blerk, Daryl
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In the last 30 years, street children and youth have received significant international attention, yet we are told they are still consistently being failed in being able to access their rights (van Blerk, 2014). A significant body of research has developed, moving away from attempts to define and count numbers of street children to investigating their lives (Aptekar and Stoecklin, 2014). Research has identified that young people who are connected with the streets spend much of their daily life creatively using the city for survival, fluidly working, sleeping and engaging recreationally in the city. A now diverse literature explores the daily minutiae of street youth’s lives, including their lifestyles, reasons for being on the streets, survival strategies, subcultures and identity (Aptekar, 1988; Hecht, 1998; Beazley, 2002, 2003; van Blerk, 2006).
AB - In the last 30 years, street children and youth have received significant international attention, yet we are told they are still consistently being failed in being able to access their rights (van Blerk, 2014). A significant body of research has developed, moving away from attempts to define and count numbers of street children to investigating their lives (Aptekar and Stoecklin, 2014). Research has identified that young people who are connected with the streets spend much of their daily life creatively using the city for survival, fluidly working, sleeping and engaging recreationally in the city. A now diverse literature explores the daily minutiae of street youth’s lives, including their lifestyles, reasons for being on the streets, survival strategies, subcultures and identity (Aptekar, 1988; Hecht, 1998; Beazley, 2002, 2003; van Blerk, 2006).
U2 - 10.1057/9781137415608_12
DO - 10.1057/9781137415608_12
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781137415592
T3 - Studies in Childhood and Youth
SP - 189
EP - 203
BT - Children’s Emotions in Policy and Practice
A2 - Blazek, Matej
A2 - Kraftl, Peter
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -