Community understandings of children's transitions in Ethiopia: possible implications for life course poverty

Working paper

The paper explores the views of caregivers and other adults on the nature and timing of transitions made by children aged 11 to 13 in five Ethiopian communities, spanning rural, peri-urban and urban locations. The three transitions selected are schooling, work and 'early' marriage for girls, which provides a gendered example of rites of passage that are engaged in alongside institutional transitions and affect their success or failure. Adult perspectives are the focus as these are assumed to ...

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Authors: Tafere, Y; Camfield, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Young Lives Publisher's website
• Series: Young Lives Working Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/working-papers
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• Paper number: 41
• ISBN: 9781904427452
• Language: English
• Keywords: transitions; schooling; work; community; gender; poverty; early marriage; children
• Subjects: Education; Gender; Social disadvantage; Families; Poverty; Households; Children and youth; Social Inequality