جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « کودکان کار خیابانی » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

The present research aimed to investigate the effective factors on the tendency of street-working children to substance retail sales in the western provinces of the country (Ilam and Kermanshah).

The method of this research was qualitative and of thematic analysis type. The statistical population of the present research consisted of scientific and executive experts and specialists from Faraja, the judiciary and welfare, experts in the field of social harm and drugs, and street-working children and their families. Among them, 30 people were selected using the purposeful sampling method. In-depth and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The data were analyzed in three stages of open, axial, and selective coding.

The results showed that the effective factors included two main dimensions of direct and contextual factors and 4 components of psychological, family, social, and economic factors. The re-examination of the findings from two focus groups consisting of some active participants led to the identification of 4 process patterns, including the poor immigrant family, the family with a work culture, the family with irresponsible parents, and the beggar family.

The research results show that this issue is a multi-dimensional abnormal social phenomenon, and considering its nature, its control requires the interaction and cooperation of various institutions, which should be controlled and managed with necessary coordination and focusing on cultural and social responses.

The purpose of this study was to exploring the family contexts and its role in reproducing the phenomenon of street children in Ahvaz. The core questions in this study include: 1. how is the economic and living condition of street children' parents in Ahvaz? 2. What strategies do children adopt when they are in this economic and living condition? 3. What are the parents' treatments of their children's work on the street? 4. What are the consequences of working street children in Ahvaz? To achieve this and to answer the questions, the interpretive approach and the grounded theory method were used. An in-depth interview was conducted first with targeted sampling and then theoretical sampling with 11 street children, which was immediately followed, by data collection, coding and analysis. The findings comprise 10 subcategories, 4 main categories, and the core category that was categorized "the working children as family economic life". The results showed that due to the lack of the family's economic power on the one hand and the experience of unfortunate events in the family such as death, disability and physical weakness of the head of the family on the other hand, the family is in a very unfavorable economic and living condition and it is the children who have to meet their family needs, and the family relies heavily on the them. Parents also proudly treat children's work as maturity, growth and greatness. Ultimately, the consequences of such a wide- phenomenon range from academic retardation, dropout to child abuse in the transfer of objects and substances by unknown individuals, and anti-security offers to the child.