Resumen

ESPINOSA SPINOLA, María. Discourses, Narratives and Perceptions among Street Children in their Runaway. Desacatos [online]. 2012, n.40, pp.97-110. ISSN 2448-5144.

Based on an ethnographic research carried out with street children in Mexico City, I intend to show the interpretations that boys and girls made of their going out in the street. They took decisions based on the logic of the building of mother-child relationships, on the scenes of violence within their families the children suffered in different manners, and on the meanings provided by the street. I will explain their perceptions about the reality they lived a reality that place them before a series of dilemmas and from the manner in which social agents acted. That's why I see them as main actors in their development and with social agency.

Palabras llave : ethnography; street childhood; motherhood; gender representations; violence.

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