Relational Mobility of Street‐Connected Youth in Urban Northeast Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7149505 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annika Lehtonen (0000-0003-3208-8636, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Social Work, Tampere University Tampere Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1132-1140 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/chso.12982 |
| OpenAlex | W4411287188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article scrutinises the relational processes regarding how street‐connected young people's families, relationships and societal influence affect their mobility and vice versa, and how these young people navigate between important settings in their lives. It explores how street‐connected youth practise and describe their decision‐making regarding socio‐spatial mobility in relation to the multiple settings in which they move. The study draws on ethnographic data collected in two Brazilian cities—Recife in 2018–2019 and Salvador in 2022–2023—with fifteen street‐connected young people. The article illustrates how young people's movement within survival was fundamentally formed in relations with others, while not ruling out the existence of their own agency in these mobility practices. The results elaborate on the nuanced contexts in which the young people were both thrown out of and ran away from difficult situations. The article argues that, despite their desire to move, street‐connected youth are not solely agents moving as they wish; rather, their mobility decisions are relationally embedded in both society and the people around them. Thus, street‐connected young people's relational mobility practices and multilocality need to be recognised in related policy and practice
Geography · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Homelessness and Social Issues · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood
Mobility
Capturing the heterogeneity of life on the streets
Doing Ethnography
Trapped bodies, moving minds
An Ontological Turn for Childhood Studies
Berg-en-See street boys
Negotiating spatial identities
Wherever I lay my head is home’ – young people's experience of home in the Brazilian street environment
Street child spaces
Place attachment among children in a street situation in Pelotas, Brazil
Pushed and pulled onto the streets
Culture-Related Strengths Among Latin American Families
Mobilities, Networks, Geographies
Militarized everyday lives, logics and responses among children and youth in a violent community in urban Brazil
Qualitative Data Analysis
Considering an agency-vulnerability nexus in the lives of street children and youth
Shared journeys, linked lives
Criticising the Solitary Mobile Subject
O direito à educação de meninos e meninas em situação de rua
Crianças e adolescentes abrigados
Empowering families as an alternative to foster care for street children in Brazil
She does not make me do it, but I want to help her
Freedom, Revolt and `Citizenship
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |