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Peer reviewedFilho, Gisalio Cerqueira; Neder, Gizlene – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2001
This review examines the social literature on Brazilian street children to determine causal factors. Stressing the socioeconomic aspects of poverty and social exclusion, the analyses identify three basic themes: the family, high failure rates in school, and child/adolescent labor. The role of Brazil's economic crisis of the late 1970s and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries
de Oliveira, Walter – 2000
The street children of Brazil live in unimaginable poverty and squalor, stealing jewelry or selling their bodies to survive, wandering homeless and untaught, pursued by death squads who clean up the streets by washing them with blood. The street youthworkers interviewed for the in-depth study delineated in this book some inspired by the Catholic…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Health Needs
Peer reviewedEpstein, Irving – Comparative Education, 1996
Analyzes institutional responses to homelessness among children and youth in the United States and Brazil as a means of understanding the workings of the neoliberal state, both in developing and developed nations. Highlights a major contradiction of neoliberalism--its promotion of symbolic political and social inclusion, while simultaneously…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedDewees, Anthony; Klees, Steven J. – Comparative Education Review, 1995
Discusses the problems faced by street and working children in Brazil, problems often exacerbated by the educational system. Describes how grass-roots activism led to enactment of an exceptional progressive law protecting children's rights. Examines the failure of technical rationality as the foundation of mainstream educational planning. (SV)
Descriptors: Activism, Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Children
Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Pyne, Hnin Hnin – 2002
Using data from Brazil's 1996 national household survey, various dimensions of child labor were examined by gender, including participation, intensity, and type of activities; the relationships between child labor, education, and future earnings; and the risks of child labor to health and well being. Findings indicate that more boys than girls…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Education Work Relationship
Swift, Anthony – 1991
This publication is the second report, tailored to a non-specialist audience, of five country case studies under the Urban Child Program of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) International Child Development Center. The crisis of unprotected children and adolescents in Brazil has developed along with rapid industrialization and great…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Child Health, Child Labor
