Resiliensi Anak Jalanan yang Bersekolah di Rumah Singgah Diponegoro Surabaya

This study aims to describe the causes of decreased resilience of street kids and also to describe the factors that make children classified as having resilience or not. The approach used in this research is a qualitative approach with a case study design. The subjects in this study were street kids who to school at the Diponegoro Halfway House. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Collecting data using interviews, observation, and documentation. From the results of the research conducted, it was found that the resilience of the four research subjects. Subjects had the ability of seven aspects of resilience with different strengths. Economic conditions and parental affection are several reasons why children take to the streets. At their age, who should be used to study in school, it is still a big task for educators. Not all street children who go to school have good resilience abilities, as the results of this study. The results showed that in general the street kids at Diponegoro Halfway House had good abilities and there was one subject who was not resilient. The different in strength is due to family background, the origin, of the child taking to different paths and associations at school. Â Keywords : resilience, street kids.

Interview with Beano writer Andy Fanton

An interview with Andy Fanton, a current writer for the Beano UK children’s humour comic. Andy got his break writing and drawing for the sadly now-defunct Dandy weekly, and currently writes legacy characters such as Minnie the Minx and The Bash Street Kids. The interview covers Andy’s and DC Thomson’s working practices and methods, considers the role and relevance of Beano in the transmedia age, and defends Beano from accusations that the comic has lost its edge and is no longer as cheeky or rebellious as it once was.

Russian Émigrés in Shanghai: Their Social and Economic Status in 1922–1925

The article focuses on the problem of social and economic status of Russian émigrés in Shanghai in 1922–1925, in particular from the arrival of the Siberian flotilla to the beginning of the May Thirtieth Movement. Based on previously unexplored official records from the Shanghai Municipal Archive (SMA), Shanghai Municipal Police Files (SMPF) and the detailed research of the press, the author manages to significantly supplement the portrait of Russian émigrés’ life during the above period. The wider source base of this research, as compared those that are available for an earlier period of 1917–1922, allows us to describe the social and economic status of the émigrés in more precise terms. Statistical information from the Municipal Council of the Shanghai International Settlement evidences a high unemployment rate among the émigrés (according to the police records, it reached 71,4 % among employable men). Obviously, the humanitarian aid from the government and city communities could not satisfy needs of the unemployed. 1) At the end of 1924, Shanghai press reported the case when the Russians were sleeping in the houses without roof near the Chapei railway; 2) Shanghai was able to provide free food only for 2280 Russian refugees. However, according to statistics dated October 9, 1923 and February 1, 1924, the number of unemployed men and women reached 3 500. This means that not all Russians in Shanghai were provided with a minimum of food. As compared to 1917–1922, problems of women and street kids also persisted but due to public support child begging stopped although problems of women continued to exist until the communists came to power in Shanghai. “Russian prostitution” even became part of the Shanghai’s historical memory. A special problem during the period of 1922–1925 was poor sanitation in areas where Russian cadets lived as a result of harsh living conditions and low social and economic status (this situation was not recorded in the anniversary editions of Khabarovsky and Siberian Cadet Corps).

“That Doesn’t Count as a Book, That’s Real Life!”

Chapter 6 demonstrates how students’ literacy skills are not simply erased within the school but also criminalized. Students write their identities in complex ways, highlighting the competing forces that recruit them to signal simultaneously their alignment with and opposition to the school’s project of socialization. Previous analyses of school-based socialization in urban contexts often distinguish between stereotypical “school kids” (who eventually graduate and become upwardly socioeconomically mobile) and “street kids” (who drop out and become part of the racialized American underclass). In contrast, this chapter shows how students in New Northwest High School draw on various literacy practices to signal school kid and street kid identities concurrently.

Child injury, maltreatment, and safeguarding

Child maltreatment and intentional injuries are major public health challenges, incurring huge costs for both individuals and society. Violence is an abuse of power comprising acts of commission and omission, and can have lasting consequences for survivors. It includes abuse in the home and collective violence, resulting in children being orphaned or abandoned, forced to become child soldiers, ‘street kids’ or trafficked for domestic work or sexual exploitation. In addition to physical violence, emotional abuse can involve bullying and seeing or hearing the ill treatment of another, such as a child witnessing intimate partner violence. Child maltreatment rates are higher in countries affected by war, famine, social inequality, and economic transition and in communities with marginalised indigenous and disabled groups. Comprehensive interventions, based on child rights principles, are needed that focus on prevention, detection, and intervention.

Out of Place: Abandoned Children in Predicaments amid Alterations

<p>The major argument of this article is that amid the rhetoric of inclusion of caste/ethnic/regional groups in the national mainstream, street children known as vagrant kids are the victims of exclusion. In a new situation on the streets, Vagrant kids are the vagabond. However, abandoning the home and adjusting to the streets is a multifarious process. The forming of the vagrant kids is a complex itinerary actions embedded with the age, sex, and ethnicities/caste, place of origin, family economy, family roles and responsibilities. Among the multiple factors, family dysfunctions and company with street boys are the raison d'être for the emergence of street children culture. In a transformed situation on street, kids’ lives have a momentous relationship to the street as a space and a new sub-culture in a new situation. In a rupture from works, which considers vagrant kids a hindrance to progressive social change, this study squabble that forming of vagrant kids is society ingrained and hence endorses role of community in bringing transference, meaningful development in the status of vagrant kids through an affirmative change in the behavior of the people and the government.</p><p>Economic Literature Vol.12 2014: 26-38</p>