Street Children
(see also Homelessness, Gang Violence)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Amnesty International. Guatemala: Extrajudicial Executions & Human Rights Abuses Against Street Children (NY, 1990).
__________. Guatemala: Children in Fear. Street Children & Street Educators Continue to Be Targeted (NY, 1992).
__________. Brazil: Impunity & the Law. The Killing of Street Children in Rio de Janeiro State (London, 1992).
Aptekar, Lewis. Street Children of Cali (Durham NC: Duke, 1988).
Byrne, Iain. The Human Rights of Street & Working Children: A Practical Manual for Advocates (London: Intermediate Technology, 1998).
Ganesan, Arvind. Police Abuse & Killings of Street Children in India (NY: Human Rights Watch, 1996).
Goode, Judith. Gaminismo: Recent Trends in Social Programs for Colombian Street Children (Indianapolis: Universities Field Staff International, 1988).
Hansson, Desirée. We the Invisible: A Feminist Analysis of the Conception "Street Children" in South Africa (Cape Town: U. of Cape Town, 1991).
Hecht, Tobias. At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil (NY: Cambridge, 1998).
Kilbride, Philip Leroy; Colette Suda & Enos Njeru. Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood (Westport CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2000).
Lewis, Heather Parker. Also God's Children?: Encounters with Street Kids (Cape Town: Ihilihili, 1998).
Lugalla, Joe L.P. Urban Life & Street Children's Health: Children's Accounts of Urban Hardships & Violence in Tanzania (Piscataway NJ: Transaction, 2003).
Lundy, Katherine Coleman. Sidewalks Talk: A Naturalistic Study of Street Kids (NY: Garland 1995).
Miller, Wendy. Screaming from the Streets: The Street Children of Java (Clayton, Vic.; Monash U. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004).
Mugo, John Kabutha. Rehabilitation of Street Children in Kenya: Approaches, Quality & Challenges (London: IKO, 2004).
Ngo, Kim Cuc. Children of the Dust: Street Children in Vietnam & Children in Extremely Difficult Circumstances (Bangkok: World Vision, 1996).
Noble, Christina with Robert Coram. Nobody's Child:A Woman's Abusive Past & the Inspiring Dream that Led Her to Rescue the Street Children of Saigon (NY: Grove, 1994).
O'Kane, Claire. In Search of Fair Play: Street & Working Children Speak About their Rights (New Delhi: Mosaic, 2001).
Plympton, Tia Jean. Homeless Youth Creating their Own Street "Families" (NY: Garland, 1997).
Sanders, Thomas G. Brazilian Street Children (Indianapolis: Universities Field Staff International, 1987).
Swift, Anthony. Children for Social Change: Education for Citizenship of Street & Working Children in Brazil (Nottingham: Educational Heretics, 1997).
Tierney, Nancy Leigh. Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children (St. Paul MN: Pangaea, 1997).
In the Library: Fiction
Gabriel, Marie Cruz. Children of the Street (NY: Penguin, 1994).
Hower, Edward. The Storms of May (NY: Ontario Review, 2005).