Beyond the victim [[electronic resource] ] : the politics and ethics of empowering Cairo's street children / / Kamal Fahmi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455315203321
• Autore: Fahmī Kamāl
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-61797-606-7; 1-61797-102-2; 1-61797-563-X; 1-936190-04-4
• Edizione: [Electronic edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.7
• Soggetti: Participant observation; Social work with youth - Egypt - Cairo; Street children - Egypt - Cairo; Street youth - Egypt - Cairo; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Theoretical and Methodological Framework -- Participatory Action Research -- Street Work -- The Story -- The Beginning -- Conceptual Framework -- Continuation of the Story -- Impacts and Concluding Commentary -- Appendix 1 Profiles of Street Children -- Appendix 2 Profiles of Street Localities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Street children-abandoned or runaway children living on their own-can be found in cities all over the world, and their numbers are growing despite numerous international programs aimed at helping them. All too frequently, these children are viewed solely as victims or deviants to be rescued and rehabilitated. In Beyond the Victim, sociologist Kamal Fahmi draws on eight years of fieldwork with street children in Cairo to portray them in a much different-and empowering-light. Fahmi argues that, far from being mere victims or deviants, these children, in running away from alienating home lives an

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• Record Nr.: UNISA996394016903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London, : s.n., 1695]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 sheet ([1] p.)
• Soggetti: Banking law - Great Britain; Bank deposits - Law and legislation - Great Britain; Naturalization - Great Britain; Broadsides17th century.England; Great Britain Commerce Early works to 1800
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.).; Imperfect: torn with slight loss of text.; Reproduction of original in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0009