Street Youth Labor as an Expression of Survival and Self-Worth
This paper explores the ways in which employment/ labor are situated within the daily lives of Guatemalan street youth. The youth interviewed primarily engaged in informal money-making activities. These activities not only demonstrate the entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and resilience of street-...
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| description | This paper explores the ways in which employment/ labor are situated within the daily lives of Guatemalan street youth. The youth interviewed primarily engaged in informal money-making activities. These activities not only demonstrate the entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and resilience of street-involved young people, but their need to undertake any number of often undesirable tasks to survive. Findings from this study suggest that such work can provide street youth with greater self-confidence and self-esteem – reshaping their identities as “productive citizens.” However, such work, primarily due to its very public nature, can also re-marginalize young people as “unworthy” and “non-citizens.” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-af61a6e6ba794d2a9d4ecc0ecc50848c2022-12-22T01:21:04ZengUniversity of WindsorCritical Social Work1543-93722019-05-0113210.22329/csw.v13i2.5865Street Youth Labor as an Expression of Survival and Self-WorthJeff Karabanow0Elissa Gurman1Ted Naylor2School of Social Work, International Development Studies (cross-appointed), School of Health and Human Performance (cross-appointed), Dalhousie UniversityPhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaSchool of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, CanadaThis paper explores the ways in which employment/ labor are situated within the daily lives of Guatemalan street youth. The youth interviewed primarily engaged in informal money-making activities. These activities not only demonstrate the entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and resilience of street-involved young people, but their need to undertake any number of often undesirable tasks to survive. Findings from this study suggest that such work can provide street youth with greater self-confidence and self-esteem – reshaping their identities as “productive citizens.” However, such work, primarily due to its very public nature, can also re-marginalize young people as “unworthy” and “non-citizens.”https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw/article/view/5865street youthstreet culturestreet workinformal economystreet survival |
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| title | Street Youth Labor as an Expression of Survival and Self-Worth |
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| title_short | Street Youth Labor as an Expression of Survival and Self-Worth |
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| topic | street youth street culture street work informal economy street survival |
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