Economic Practices of African Street Youth: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Zimbabwe

Wayne Shand; Lorraine van Blerk; Janine Hunter

doi:10.1007/978-981-4585-97-2_5-1

Economic Practices of African Street Youth: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Zimbabwe

Wayne Shand, Lorraine van Blerk (Lead / Corresponding author), Janine Hunter

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Little is known about how street connected young people maintain livelihoods and how their earning strategies change as they enter adulthood. Living precariously in street environments, markets, and informal settlements, street children and youth develop complex responses to their social and economic marginalization, working on the fringes of the formal and informal urban economy. This chapter draws from research undertaken with street children and youth in three African cities to highlight the importance of the informal economy and reveal how income is generated to meet daily basic needs and the compromises and vulnerabilities these create for young people Growing up on the Streets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Labouring and Learning
Editors	Tatek Abebe, Johanna Waters, Tracey Skelton
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1-21
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9789814585972
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-97-2_5-1
Publication status	Published - 28 Jan 2016

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Name	Geographies of Children and Young People
Volume	10

Keywords

African Street Youth
Earnings
Informal Economy
Urban
Subsistence
Ethnographic Method
Ghana, Zimbabwe and DRC

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

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Growing Up on the Streets: Building Networks of Knowledge Exchange for Delivering Impact (Knowledge Exchange)
van Blerk, L. (Investigator)
1/02/15 → 31/07/16
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Growing up on the Streets: Research with and for young people on the streets, 2012-2016
van Blerk, L. (Creator), Shand, W. (Creator), Shanahan, P. (Creator), Hunter, J. (Creator), Gbeglo, S. (Contributor), Rubambura, T. D. (Contributor) & Chitsiku, S. (Contributor), University of Dundee, 14 Sept 2020
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