Beyond the victim : the politics and ethics of empowering Cairo's street children /

Kamal Fahmi draws on eight years of fieldwork with street children in Cairo to portray them in a different - and empowering - light. Fahmi argues that, far from being mere victims or deviants, these children, in running away from alienating home lives and finding relative freedom in the street, are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fahmī, Kamāl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, ©2007.
Edición:[CA & US version].
Temas:
Participant observation.
Social work with youth > Egypt > Cairo.
Street children > Egypt > Cairo.
Street youth > Egypt > Cairo.
Service social à la jeunesse > Égypte > Le Caire.
Enfants de la rue > Égypte > Le Caire.
Jeunes de la rue > Égypte > Le Caire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
Social work with youth.
Street children.
Street youth.
Egypt > Cairo.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Kamal Fahmi draws on eight years of fieldwork with street children in Cairo to portray them in a different - and empowering - light. Fahmi argues that, far from being mere victims or deviants, these children, in running away from alienating home lives and finding relative freedom in the street, are capable of actively defining their situations in their own terms.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 202, [8] pages) : illustrations (some color), map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781617976063
1617976067

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