Working with street youth organisations: Working with voluntary and community groups.

The sometimes-harsh realities of life for children and youth growing up in cities only received significant attention in geographical research. It has come to acknowledge that daily life is organised through adult structures, oppressing some children and youth who lack fora for exercising agency. Further, the complexity of society means that experience varies with characteristics such as gender, race, class and, in the case of street children and youth, homelessness. Street young people challenge normative understandings of social life, are often considered out of place on the streets, but have much to teach geographers about the use of space and the blurring of public–private environments in cities, and therefore the way in which societies are, or should be, organised.