Losing Childhood: Latin Equis Children In The Informal Economy

Losing Childhood: Latin Equis Children in the Informal Economy, focuses on the stigmatization and normalization of the informal economy of adolescents. I explored how adolescents perceived their quality of life in comparison to their peers and how their income generating strategies meet their family’s everyday exigencies. During this economic crisis, many families are experiencing unemployment, and job loss, thus compelling adolescents to supplement their parents’ income by selling goods or services to contribute to the family economy. At the core, I found that the youth must compromise their social activities with other youth, and instead prioritize their participation in the informal economy to make-ends-meet, therefore, manufacturing a labor class of adolescents who must take on an adult role within the family.