Street Children Discourses in Russia and Cuba
A Comparative Study aimed at Developing Preventative Measures in Public Child Care
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https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v2i1.30Abstract
My colleague and I came to a centre for rights protection of children and adolescents in a city in Northern Russia. It was a winter day with snow all over. In an open space between the houses, just before the entrance to the centre building, we met two eight or nine-year-old girls, skiing. They were smoking cigarettes. My colleague, who is a Russian, said as a joke: “Don’t you know when you smoke a second head will grow on your shoulders?” The answer came right-away: “I don’t care!” This little conversation in Russian was our introduction to a series of meetings with different spokespersons working at arenas with influence on child and adolescent welfare in the region.
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Volkov, V, (1999) Violent Entrepreneurship in Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 51 (5): 741-754.
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2007-04-01
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Jenssen, T. (2007). Street Children Discourses in Russia and Cuba: A Comparative Study aimed at Developing Preventative Measures in Public Child Care. Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2(1), 26–39. https://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v2i1.30
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