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Like the majority of children living in the global South today, a large number of Vietnamese youths work to help support their families. International human rights organizations have focused on these children, seeking to bring their lives into line with an understanding of childhood that is generally accepted in the developed world. In this ethnographic study, Rachel Burr draws on her daily observations of working children in Hanoi and argues that these youngsters are misunderstood by the majority of agencies that seek to help them. Most aid programs embrace a model of childhood that is based on Western notions of individualism and bountiful resources. They further assume that this model is universally applicable even in cultures that advocate a collective sense of self and in countries that do not share the same economic advantages. Burr presents the voices and experiences of Vietnamese children in the streets, in a reform school, and in an orphanage to show that workable solutions have become lost within the rhetoric propagated by aid organizations. The reality of providing primary education or adequate healthcare for all children, for instance, does not stand a chance of being achieved until adequate resources are put in place. Yet, organizations preoccupied with the child rights agenda are failing to acknowledge the distorted global distribution of wealth in favor of Western nations. Offering a unique, firsthand look at the experiences of children in contemporary Vietnam, this book also provides a broad analysis of how internationally led human rights agendas are often received at the local level.

North and south. --- Humanitarian assistance --- Child welfare --- Child labor --- Children's rights --- Street children --- Children --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Children of the streets --- Street kids --- Employment of children --- Labor --- Age and employment --- Child protective services --- Child protective services personnel --- CPS (Child protective services) --- Humane societies --- Protection of children --- Family policy --- Public welfare --- Social work with children --- Social work with youth --- Humanitarian aid --- International relief --- South and north --- Acculturation --- Culture conflict --- Child rights --- Children's human rights --- Rights of children --- Rights of the child --- Human rights --- Social conditions. --- Employment --- Charities --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Protection --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Enfants --- Enfants de la rue --- Aide humanitaire --- Viet-Nam --- Conditions sociales --- Droits --- Travail --- Protection, assistance, etc. --- Conditions économiques --- 1975-....