Abstract
The callejización (street migration) consists of different stages of decision-making in which the child becomes more and more alienated from home. Pull and push forces need to be treated separately: the illusion of freedom in the street and emotional bonding with (gang) friends are attracting children to the street; material poverty, dysfunctional families and violence lead to utter frustration and flight towards an alternative. The push and pull forces keep the child in a condition of ambivalence.
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Often it seemed to be difficult or impossible to meet their parents, because the parents had died, the children had no idea where their parents were, or the children didn’t want us to meet their parents because of traumatic experiences in the past, shame, indifference or anxiety. In some cases we talked with other family members, like older brothers/sisters or aunties.
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Literally this means ‘turkeys’, but in street dialect the term is used for ‘tourists’.
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Lieten, G.K., Strehl, T. (2015). Landing in the Streets: A Multiplicity of Factors. 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_3
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