Children in Street Situations

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Highlights the theoretical importance to the latest developments and their implications on the research on the lives of children in street situations Provides analyses on children living in street situations from a qualitative perspective, linking obstacles to macrosocial and microsocial dimensions   Authored by the historical proponents of the new wording ''Children in Street Situations''

Autorenportrait

Riccardo Lucchini is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) where he has been Vice-Rector (1971-1975), Head of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (FSES) (1984-1985), President of the Commission on Teaching Evaluation (1999-2003) and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences in FSES (2001-2003). He has carried out extensive research in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Costa Rica and Honduras on topics ranging from the sociology of facism, drug dependency, children living on the streets and domestic violence, on which topics he has published widely. Daniel Stoecklin is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Centre for Childrens Rights Studies of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His areas of research and teaching are the sociology of childhood, childrens rights, children in street situations, child participation and the capability approach. Following his PhD on children in street situations in China, he has been involved with several international NGO projects in the field of children in difficult situations. He has also worked as an independent expert for the Council of Europe regarding child participation. 

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