Ouagadougou et ses enfants; l'imaginaire comme stratégie de survie
(2011) Enfances-Adolescences — Vol. 1, n° 19, p. 61-79 (2011)
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- (en) Ouagadougou's children : imaginary as a survival strategy Summary : Texte Between tradition and modernity, the Burkina Faso’s trying to synthesize his national identity. The problem of street children is questionning this process and the political, economical and social institutions. Those children are also taken in a complex psychic process touching their identity’s foundation. How are they organising their psychological defense to survive in the street ? What stratégies could be established by stakeholders to uphold those children and authorized something else that street’s surviving ? Living in the street offre in a certain way a security for children and psychological défense are frequently a protection to cure and care : addiction, being with pairs for identification, protective confabulation, langage’s rupture, etc. The social worker, taken in his cons-transfer, are oftenly lacking of solution to care beyond those psychological defense drawned against collapse. Through défenses’s analysis, we’re proposing ways to get closer of street children’s need and responding them avoiding falling-in. Keywords : Ouagadougou, children of street, imaginary, survival, drugs, food, help to the youth, identit
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Saporosi, S., & Kinoo, P. (2011). Ouagadougou et ses enfants; l’imaginaire comme stratégie de survie. Enfances-Adolescences, 1(19), 61-79. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/54720 (Original work published 2011)