street child

homeless child living on the street

Research

54,305 papers

Street and working children: perspectives on child labour and child work.BMJ paediatrics open · 2024
[Street children].Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo · 2013
Children in street situations' access to healthcare: qualitative findings from the Street Child World Cup 2022.BMJ paediatrics open · 2023
Child-street migration among HIV-affected families in Kenya: a mediation analysis from cross-sectional data.AIDS care · 2016
In the street.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2010

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Gavroche, a fictional character in the historical novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, is inspired by the street children who existed in France in the 19th century. Multiethnic group of "street gamins" in Istanbul (then known in English as Constantinople), 1921

Street children are poor and/or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village. Homeless youth are often called street kids, or urchins; the definition of street children is contested, but many practitioners and policymakers use UNICEF's concept of boys and girls, aged under 18 years, for whom "the street" (including unoccupied dwellings and wasteland) has become home and/or their source of livelihood, and who are inadequately protected or supervised. Street girls are sometimes called gamines, a term that is also used for Colombian street children of either sex.