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title = "Living on the Streets, Making Plans for the Future: Street Children and Youth in Three African Cities",
abstract = "• Like other young people, street children and youth have hopes, dreams and aspirations, but perceive their future as more immediate due to the daily search for shelter and food.• Street children and youth hope to attain material and symbolic signs of adult status, including starting their own family, and the respect and esteem of the wider community.• Their route to the future they aspire to is often unclear, hindered by a lack of shelter, identity documents, discrimination, and gender norms.• While acknowledging limited power, street children and youth were simultaneously optimistic and realistic about what their future may hold.",
keywords = "Street children/youth, Youth transitions, Future, Livelihoods, Accra, Ghana, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Harare, Zimbabwe, Future plans, Hopes, Dreams, Discrimination, Gender norms",
author = "Janine Hunter and {van Blerk}, Lorraine and Wayne Shand",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "9",
doi = "10.20933/100001242",
language = "English",
series = "Growing up on the Streets: Briefing Papers",
publisher = "University of Dundee",
number = "15",
type = "Other",
}