Dissertation Research: Leaving Home: Children

论文研究：离开家：儿童

• 批准号: 9909183
• 负责人: J. Terrence McCabe
• 金额: $ 0.57万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-06-01 至 2001-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9909183&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Leaving; Home; Children

This proposal will examine how rural children are migrating to cities alone and swelling the ranks of urban street children in Tanzania; these children leave school and take up informal sector work in the city, developing new survival strategies. There is little information on child migrants in the anthropological literature and this phenomenon is poorly understood. The author notes that it is important to differentiate between working street children and those who beg or who are runaways. This project would shed light on the African informal economy, on the process of child migration (and decision-making) and on the role of kinship/community in the child migration situation. Previous studies have indicated that "wealth in children" is an important ideal among Tanzanian families and child fosterage common. The increase in lone child migration appears to contradict what has been understood about the social organization of these societies. Methods include a survey of 200 vendors, structured interviews and participant observation in both urban and rural communities.

该提案将研究坦桑尼亚农村儿童如何独自迁移到城市以及如何扩大城市街头儿童的队伍；这些孩子离开学校，在城市的非正规部门工作，制定新的生存策略。人类学文献中关于儿童移民的信息很少，人们对这一现象知之甚少。作者指出，区分街头打工儿童和乞讨或离家出走的儿童非常重要。该项目将揭示非洲非正规经济、儿童移徙过程（和决策）以及亲属/社区在儿童移徙情况中的作用。此前的研究表明，“子孙富贵”是坦桑尼亚家庭的重要理想，儿童寄养现象普遍存在。 独生子女移民的增加似乎与人们对这些社会的社会组织的理解相矛盾。方法包括对城市和农村社区的 200 家供应商进行调查、结构化访谈和参与观察。