Street Children in Vietnam an Inquiry into the roots of Poverty and Survival Livelihood Strategies

Summary

The report is divided in two main parts. The first provides an extensive review of the literature on disadvantaged children in Vietnam, emphasising the main causes at the root of the street children conditions and the institutions, local and international, approach to improve it. Likewise, on the basis of the studies that have been carried out by international agencies and non-governmental organisations, and supported by the findings from the interviews carried out in Hanoi for the pilot study, the report presents a new conceptualisation of street children. These categories have applied for the field-research in both Hanoi and the countryside, which constitutes the second part of the report.