Le phénomène des enfants des rues au Rwanda : une analyse de la dynamique du départ et de la progression dans la carrière de la rue
(2010)
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- (en) These last years, the phenomenon of the children of streets profit from political and media attention and the literature on the subject has not ceased to grow. The review of the scientific literature and the positions of the workers near those children release an image involving two complementary features: the child victim and/or the deviating child. The child victim is presumed innocent and immature. He undergoes passively through effects of the social structures. He is the product of series of events which he does not control. His first characteristic is that he is affected by his own. He does not manage to fit it. His route through the street makes him, abuses him. Then, he becomes deviating child when he refuses to leave the street. If, he progresses in this way, it is because he is unable to familiarize himself with his own history. The street is presumed immoral, who choose to live in, is also presumed immoral or worse, attached to immorality of the street. However, the children of the streets in Rwanda teach us another perspective. Indeed, through the observation of their activities made up by their competences and their stories. This research indicates that the departure and the evolution of the children in the street are related to conjunction of elements, among which figure first the evaluation, the child has on each one of these elements. The diversity of the activities which children carry on in the street is a sign of their competences and their role as active and creative actor. In addition, the principles and the standards which they respect are very largely coherent with those of the Rwandan society. In any manner, these children do not seem deviating: they rather observe carefully the social regulations which required that every citizen has to be responsible of himself. Though the progression of the children in this space which is not linear, is accompanied by a succession of objective changes on positions, achievements, responsibilities and perspectives. The absence of linearity is explained by the perception and/or the particular interpretation of each child of the events to which he is faced to in this space. The life adopted by the children of the streets is not an unhappy management of the daily life but a construction of a career made up by the development of competences for a large number of them.
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UCLouvain PSYE - Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation
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Tumusabyimana, V. (2010). Le phénomène des enfants des rues au Rwanda : une analyse de la dynamique du départ et de la progression dans la carrière de la rue. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/68593