Biographical interviews as emotional encounters in street youth’s lives: the role of research in facilitating therapeutic intervention

Lorraine van Blerk, Daryl van Blerk

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    Abstract

    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).
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationChildren’s Emotions in Policy and Practice
    Subtitle of host publicationMapping and Making Spaces of Childhood
    EditorsMatej Blazek, Peter Kraftl
    Place of PublicationLondon
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
    Pages189-203
    Number of pages15
    Edition1
    ISBN (Electronic)9781137415608
    ISBN (Print)9781137415592
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Publication series

    NameStudies in Childhood and Youth
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillian

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