استخدام الأطفال في التسول في المجتمع الأردني : دراسة إثنوغرافية ميدانية

Abstract EN

The study aimed to identify the social and economic factors that force children to beg, it also studied the social, personal and economic characteristics of child beggars, and those who employ.

It is conducted by using the case study approach for the residents of government beggars’ care and rehabilitation center in Madaba, and also on the children beggars in city streets around the downtown area.

The number of cases was (15), it was carried out during February, March and April 2017.

The study results included the following: beggars were all Jordanians of both sexes, Muslims, not healthy, low education levels, and not enjoying a good health nor a good physical appearance.

Most the child beggars suffer from family disintegration and school dropout, lack of awareness among their employers of the importance of family role and its members in bringing up them up in a socially sound manner.

Childrens’ employers are there families, who are in need of the basic health and economic assistance, pushed toward the use of children in begging.

The results showed that the official role of the Jordanian Ministry of Social Development represented in the care and rehabilitation of beggars’ center in Madaba is not at the required level as hoped, since the same children are considered frequent visitors of the center, without a social care and follow-up systems from the center, leading to a conclusion that the adopted procedures in the center did not eliminate the phenomenon from its roots.