My Place: Street-working Children, Home and Space in Cusco, Peru

Abstract

It is generally assumed that street children are homeless victims. It is also generally assumed that the home is tightly related to the private sphere. In this thesis I illustrate that street-working children in Cusco, Peru, are not homeless and not victims and that home is not confined to the private domain. I do this by analyzing how street-working children make home in both the public and the private spaces and by focusing on the role their actors and places of socialization play in this process.