Home alone: Children as caretakers in León, Nicaragua

Children and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-56

  Dahlblom, Kjerstin ^a   Herrara, Andres Rodríguez ^a,b   Peña, Rodolfo ^b   Dahlgren, Lars ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Leon University   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549106080     PISSN: 09510605     EISSN: 10990860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2008.00141.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Agar MH. 1996. The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography, 2nd edn. Academic Press : San Diego, CA.
2. Agurto S, Guido A. 2004. Nicaragua hacia los Guiness Record: 35 de cada 100 hogares tienen como jefa a una mujer. El Observador Economico 145 articulo 417.
3. Boyden J. 1999. A Time for Play and a Time for School: The Results of a Survey of Practitioners, Advocates and Other Experts on Childhood and Children's Work. Save the Children : Stockholm.
4. DFID. 2005. Reducing Poverty by Tackling Social Exclusion. The Department for International Development : London.
5. Emond R. 2005. Ethnographic research methods with children and young people. In Researching Children's Experience: Approaches and Methods. Greene S, Hogan D (eds). Sage : London 123 139.
6. Fraser S. 2004. Doing Research with Children and Young People. Sage : London 15 26.
7. Goody EN. 1982. Parenthood and Social Reproduction: Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa. Cambridge University Press : Cambridge.
8. Greig AD, Taylor J. 1999. Doing Research with Children. Sage : London.
9. Herrera A, Dahlblom K, Dahlgren L, Kullgren G. 2006. Pathways to suicidal behaviour among adolescent girls in Nicaragua. Social Science and Medicine 62 : 805 814. DOI:.
10. INEC. 2006. Perfil y características de los pobres en Nicaragua en el 2001: encuestas nacional de hogares sobre medición de nivel de vida 2001. Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos : Managua, Nicaragua.
11. INEC. 2007. Indicadores básicos 1998 y 2001. Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos : Managua, Nicaragua. Available at http://www.inec.gob.ni/estadisticas/indicadoresemnv.htm [Accessed 31 August 2007].
12. Invernezzi A. 2003. Street-working children and adolescents in Lima: work as an agent of socialization. Childhood 10 : 319 341.
13. IPEC. 2002. El trabajo infantil doméstico en Nicaragua: "voy a cumplir catorce lavo, cocino, barro, cuido." Oficina Internacional del Trabajo, Programa Internacional para la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil. IPEC, INPRHU : Managua.
14. James A, Jenks C, Prout A. 1998. Theorizing Childhood. Polity Press : Cambridge.
15. Johnson V. 1998. Stepping Forward: Children and Young People's Participation in the Development Process. Intermediate Technology : London.
16. Kosonen M. 1996. Siblings as providers of support and care during middle childhood: children's perceptions. Children & Society 10 : 267 279.
17. Lancaster RN. 1992. Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua. University of California Press : Berkeley, CA.
18. Lincoln YS, Guba EG. 1985. Naturalistic Inquiry. Sage : Beverly Hills, CA.
19. Mann G. 2001. Networks of Support: A Literature Review of Care Issues for Separated Children. Save the Children : Stockholm.
20. Norman K. 1996. Cultural Beliefs About Children: A Social Anthropological Perspective [Kulturella föreställningar om barn: ett socialantropologiskt perspektiv]. Save the Children : Stockholm (In Swedish).
21. Olsson A, Ellsberg M, Berglund S, Herrera A, Zelaya E, Pena R, Zelaya F, Persson LA. 2000. Sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence among Nicaraguan men and women: a population-based anonymous survey. Child Abuse and Neglect 24 : 12.
22. Penn H. 2005. Unequal Childhoods: Young Children's Lives in Poor Countries. Routledge : London.
23. Quesada J. 1998. Suffering child: an embodiment of war and its aftermath in post-Sandinista Nicaragua. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12 : 51 73.
24. Ragin CC. 1994. Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method. Pine Forge Press : Thousand Oaks, CA.
25. Wolcott HF. 1967. A Kwakiutl Village and School. Holt Rinehart & Winston : New York.
26. Woodhead M. 1998. Children's Perspectives on their Working Lives: A Participatory Study in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, The Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Save the Children : Stockholm.
27. Zelaya Blandón E. 1999. Adolescent Pregnancies in Nicaragua: The Importance of Education. Epidemiology and Public Health, Umeå Univ. : Umeå (Dissertation).