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Children’s Feeling of Security

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This chapter outlines the authors’ work as a research team participating in CUWB (Children’s Understanding of Well Being) since it was first created, based on a project registered with the CICS-UP, School of Social Sciences of the Universidad de Palermo, Argentina. The chapter focuses on a key aspect of their findings: children’s feelings of security. The general objective of the project is to understand the social, cultural and political dimensions of the life experiences of children living in different geographic contexts in the Buenos Aires Region, Argentina, taking account of the children’s own words. This is a qualitative study that recognizes the importance of the contexts and the meanings for the actors. The sample is composed of three groups of children, 9–12 years old, living in different neighborhoods of the Region of Buenos Aires, including both urban and semi-urban neighborhoods. The techniques used for the study were: focus group, drawings and sentence completion. The chapter shows that security is an important topic in children’s lives and streets represent the place children fear, where they feel insecure and afraid of being robbed in urban areas.