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The data presented in this monograph are the result of several successive anthropological and sociological fieldwork periods with a child-centred approach in Lima and Cusco, Peru. Some children only know the street as their habitat, but most children indeed experience a constant flux in their lives between street and home. The common trait is poverty, migration and fragile family structures.
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Other studies, done by NGO’s, have higher estimates. A study done in Cusco in 1996 by the NGO ensing Maki estimated a number of 3,130 street-working children between 6 and 17 years old (Baufumé and Astete 1998). In 2009 Cusco’s night shelter for street children, Qosqo Maki, received 179 individual children, ranging from 5 to 17 years old. This gives an indication of the number of children living in the street in Cusco. However, most of these children stayed only for a short time, or at intervals. This shows the fluidity of the street child population.
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Lieten, G.K., Strehl, T. (2015). Research and Overview. In: Child Street Life. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11722-5_2
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