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"Street children" is increasingly recognized by sociologists and anthropologists to be a socially-constructed category that does not actually form a clearly-defined, homogeneous population, or phenomenon (Glauser, 1990; Ennew, 2000; Moura, 2002). "Street children" covers children in such a wide variety of circumstances and with a wide variety of characteristics that policymakers and service providers find it difficult to describe and target such a sub-population. Individual girls and boys of all ages are found living and working in public spaces, and visible in the great majority of the world’s urban centers.
The definition of "street children" is contested, but many practitioners and policymakers use UNICEF’s concept of boys and girls, aged under eighteen years, for whom "the street" (including unoccupied dwellings and wasteland) has become home and/or their source of livelihood, and who are inadequately protected or supervised (Black, 1993).
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