On Location: The Home and the Street in Recent Films about Street Children

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mavis Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Street Child ◽  
Protected Time ◽  
Slumdog Millionaire

More than twenty narrative films about street children have been produced in more than a dozen countries over the three decades since the UN International Year of the Child in 1979. This paper looks closely at seven of these films (Hector Babenco's Pixote, Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay!, Larry Clark's Kids, Nabil Ayouch's Ali Zaoua, Gerardo Tort's De la Calle, Siddiq Barmak's Osama, and Danny Boyle's and Loveleen Tandeen's Slumdog Millionaire), outlining a number of their recurrent themes and techniques, including the use of Neorealist principles of filming; the presence of screens in the profilmic space; the failure to complete traditional narratives; the abandonment by mothers; the staging of conditions of hunger, work, plenitude, and lack; the sexualisation of young people; and the rejection of institutional ‘homes’. The paper proposes that, collectively, the films demonstrate the impossibility of continuing to conceptualise childhood as a protected time and place of play and suggest the possibility that the street child is the emergent normative subject of global capitalism.

scholarly journals Punk: Pengamen Jalanan dan Sebuah Subkultur Dari Kehidupan Urban di Kota Medan

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Agung Suharyanto
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Street Children ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Piercing ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
The People ◽  
Life Pattern ◽  
The Media

This article aims to describe street children Punk in the life patterns of the people of Medan City. Medan city is one of the things that cannot be separated from the life pattern of street singers. This means that the life of street singers has become part of the overall life of the people of Medan City. Don't know who started it, now there are so many Punk communities scattered at the crossroads, living in groups while busking. Their identity is very different from other street singers, both in terms of clothes, hairstyles and body piercing as well as tattoos on several parts of the body. All things that are very different from the identity of the other buskers whose taste is also piling up. What makes the other street singers the same is that their songs and music are no different, which are trending and melancholy. They also use the media of music to create space for themselves to speak out. Music is used as a tool to empower himself. Apart from looking for food, playing music is also a tool to build solidarity. On certain occasions they played music together. So, you could say, young people in Medan who are singing on the streets and wearing all-Punk make-up in Indonesia are very likely inspired by something very different from their predecessor Punk generation in their home country.

scholarly journals Street children

2013 ◽  
Vol 141 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 835-841
Author(s):  
Nevenka Roncevic ◽  
Aleksandra Stojadinovic ◽  
Daliborka Batrnek­antonic
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Street Children ◽  
The State ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Street Child ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Seek Health Care ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

According to UNICEF, street child is any child under the age of 18 for whom the street has become home and/or source of income and which is not adequately protected or supervised by adult, responsible person. It has been estimated that there are between 100 and 150 million street children worldwide. Life and work on the street have long term and far-reaching consequences for development and health of these children. By living and working in the street, these children face the highest level of risk. Street children more often suffer from the acute illness, injuries, infection, especially gastrointestinal, acute respiratory infections and sexually transmitted diseases, inadequate nutrition, mental disorders, and drug abuse. They are more often victims of abuse, sexual exploitation, trafficking; they have higher rate of adolescent pregnancy than their peers from poor families. Street children and youth have higher rates of hospitalization and longer hospital stay due to seriousness of illness and delayed health care. Street children/youth are reluctant to seek health care, and when they try, they face many barriers. Street children are invisible to the state and their number in Serbia is unknown. Recently, some non?governmental organizations from Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis have recognized this problem and tried to offer some help to street children, by opening drop?in centers, but this is not enough. To solve this problem, an engagement of the state and the whole community is necessary, and primary responsibility lies in health, social and educational sector. The best interests of the child must serve as a basic guideline in all activities aimed at improving health, quality of life and rights of children involved in the life and work in the street.

Bombay Cinema

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Krstić
Keyword(s):  
Street Children ◽  
Orphaned Children ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
Life Paths ◽  
Slumdog Millionaire ◽  
Gangster Films ◽  
Harsh Criticism ◽  
Character Types

The first part of this chapter discusses phases of slum representation in the cinema of Bombay/Mumbai, including those of what is better known as Bollywood. Together with scholars of Indian Cinema (Mazumdar, Prasad, Basu), the chapter focuses on a few representative examples, such as Boot Polish (Arora 1954) or Satya (Varma 1998), to outline how popular Indian cinema has gradually abandoned what was once one of its most characteristic settings, the slum, to focus instead on escapist, studio set family melodramas. The second part departs from the harsh criticism (‘poverty porn’) that Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle 2008) has received to then argue that the film is best described as a palimpsestic imitation of Bombay Cinema. The film’s references to genres (gangster films, melodramas), plot structures (the forking life paths of two rival brothers), editing styles (of recent Bollywood gangster films), or character types (orphaned children) are indeed so manifold, that one can describe the film as an ‘archive of Bombay cinema’ (Mazumdar). The chapter concludes that, far from being a realistic depiction of the life of Mumbai’s street children, the film rather aims at immersing its viewers into a cinematic/televisual Mumbai of screens, surfaces and images.

Neorealist Narratives

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Krstić
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
Slumdog Millionaire ◽  
Fictional Story

This chapter outlines how documentary and realist styles coalesced as a form of documentario narrativo in the Italian neorealist movement – the major new paradigm of slum representation which, according to the author, distinguishes the postwar period. As a hybrid between fiction and non-fiction, neorealism has especially appealed to filmmakers who aimed at telling stories about ordinary, often poverty-stricken people, despite insufficient budgets. The chapter argues that the neorealist mode of production travelled across national and even continental borders in the postwar era, reaching developing film countries and their urban centres in India, Brazil or Mexico, thus becoming one of the very first truly global film or ‘world cinema’ styles. The chapter provides a close reading of Los Olvidados (Buñuel 1950), a fictional story of a boy’s struggle for motherly love in a Mexico City slum. It asks in what way it effectively represents a variety of postwar films that have been, to a larger or lesser extent, influenced by Italian neorealism. The chapter concludes with a discussion of films that have, just like Los Olvidados, employed the narrative perspective of abandoned or homeless street children – a narrative device that is still often employed today (e.g. in Slumdog Millionaire).

Teaching young people to respect human dignity: Contribution of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (319) ◽  
pp. 357-371
Author(s):  
Édith Baeriswyl
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
School System ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Child Soldiers ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
School Life ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
Uncertain Future

Young people are the focus of special interest in studies on the humanitarian, social and political situation throughout the world. As “victims”, their plight attracts particular attention on account of their vulnerability, which is recognized in all cultures everywhere—albeit with considerable variation in views as to the age of reaching adulthood. If they belong to “deviant” groups such as street children, criminals, children outside the school system or child soldiers, they are treated as victims, permanent outcasts or a threat, depending on where they are and what they do. Lastly, those who belong to a “controlled” group, in other words those enjoying a normal social and/or school life, are subject to demands which are all the greater given their elders' own disarray in face of the accelerated pace of change at the turn of the century, and the adults' desire to prepare the rising generation to cope with an uncertain future.

Challenging conceptions of young people as urban blight: Street children and youth’s ambiguous relationship with urban revitalization in Lima, Peru

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-326
Author(s):  
Dena Aufseeser
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Urban Blight ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Government officials, city planners and elites frequently position young people, especially street children and youth, as detrimental to revitalization, contributing to urban blight and needing removal. Through an examination of urban change in Lima, Peru, this article challenges the assumption that street children and youth exclusively detract from urban revitalization. Although many young people have been negatively affected by Lima’s revitalization, I argue that conflict does not tell the whole story. Street children and youths’ reactions are often more ambiguous than many assume, and young people may even be central to some efforts to improve urban space. Further, an examination of street children and youths’ informal and formal efforts to negotiate public space reveals the importance of relationships to perceptions of urban change and the success of various urban revitalization efforts. Such relationships are often overlooked in binaries that represent street children and youth as either a problem or, less typically, the solution. Instead, this research indicates the need for a more nuanced understanding of young peoples’ relationship with the uneven production of urban space.

scholarly journals Pola Etnografi Komunikasi Anak Jalanan Kota Bandar Lampung

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Tina Kartika ◽  
Nanda Utaridah
Keyword(s):  
Communication Theory ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Street Child ◽  
Ethnography Of Communication ◽  
National Pride ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

Street children are an asset to the country. The problem of street children in the State of Indonesia is not just in the economic, environmental and educational inequality matters, but also in the national pride that must be maintained. Street children are a problem in every city, without exception in the city of Bandar Lampung. Many things can cause a child becoming street children. One of the reasons is the economic factor. Some cases explain that a street child actually directed by his parents to sing and beg in order to ease the economic burden of the family. Of course this is not good for the development of children’s education. Starting from the concept of the mapped problems of street children, this study focuses on perspective of socio-cultural. Ethnography of Communication Theory is a guide to map out this concept. Ethnography of communication patterns of children are begging and singing by not giving share and giving share to the individual/ specific thugs; begging and singing intentionally or unintentionally by using others as an attraction; and begging and singing intentionally or unintentionally by exploiting weaknesses/physical disability.

scholarly journals Where is My Sweet Potato? Creating Change through Forum Theatre with Street Children in Burundi

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Theatre Of The Oppressed ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Forum Theatre ◽  
Interactive Theatre ◽  
Opening Up

ABSTRACT This paper examines the innovative use of Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed (Forum Theatre) with a group of 30 street children and young people in East Africa. Drawing upon a project in Burundi, this paper reveals how participants utilized the process of performance making through Forum Theatre as a platform to make visible problems in their lives, and a vehicle to challenge inequalities, abuse and violence. The authors demonstrate how the adoption of this methodology raised questions about interactive theatre as creative activism and a tool for opening up possibilities for dialogue with a community-based audience. This paper illuminates ways in which street children, explored, examined and problematized their lived experience, through the creative lens of Forum Theatre. It argues that this methodology generated a sense of collective consciousness, through which the children and young people created personal and social change, which extended beyond the life of the project.

scholarly journals Street Children and Money in Relation to Covid-19 Virus: Case Study for the Street Children in the Republic of South Sudan

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Ndorom Owen ◽  
Jean Banyanga d’Amour
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Street Children ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Street Child ◽  
The Republic

Living as a street child is a miserable situation, and additionally, the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected millions of people and killed thousands of humans worldwide is very alarming. Money is desired by any person for its role in purchasing things essential for living. Street children beg for money and sometimes they resort to pickpocketing from people who could be carrying the Coronavirus. This study investigates the life of street children and money in relationship to Covid-19 in South Sudan. This argument is presented through an analysis of existing literature and documents on the matter. A sample of 197street children found in the streets of Juba and Yei, including eight children who were sex-workers, filled in a questionnaire. In the sample, 43.7% slept in the street. The study found that street children are at risk of contracting the Coronavirus, and because of underlying poor health conditions, they are at a higher risk of developing complications.

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