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Life on the Malecon - Children and Youth on the Streets of Santo Domingo (Hardcover, New)
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Life on the Malecon - Children and Youth on the Streets of Santo Domingo (Hardcover, New)
Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
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Life on the Malecon is a narrative ethnography of the lives of
street children and youth living in Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic, and the non-governmental organizations that provide
social services for them. Writing from the perspective of an
anthropologist working as a street educator with a child welfare
organization, Jon M. Wolseth follows the intersecting lives of
children, the institutions they come into contact with, and the
relationships they have with each other, their families, and
organization workers. Often socioeconomic conditions push these
children to move from their homes to the streets, but sometimes
they themselves may choose the allure of the perceived freedoms and
opportunities that street life has to offer. What they find,
instead, is violence, disease, and exploitation-the daily reality
through which they learn to maneuver and survive. Wolseth describes
the stresses, rewards, and failures of the organizations and
educators who devote their resources to working with this
population. The portrait of Santo Domingo's street children and
youth population that emerges is of a diverse community with
variations that may be partly related to skin color, gender, and
class. The conditions for these youth are changing as the economy
of the Dominican Republic changes. Although the children at the
core of this book live and sleep on avenues and plazas and in
abandoned city buildings, they are not necessarily glue- and
solvent-sniffing beggars or petty thieves on the margins of
society. Instead, they hold a key position in the service sector of
an economy centered on tourism. Life on the Malecon offers a window
into the complex relationships children and youth construct in the
course of mapping out their social environment. Using a
child-centered approach, Wolseth focuses on the social lives of the
children by relating the stories that they themselves tell as well
as the activities he observes.
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