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Doctor Sajad Bahmani, Doctor Ali Arabi, Doctor Ali Boudaghi,
Volume 15, Issue 2 (7-2024)
Abstract
In recent years, the number of child labor has increased in Ahvaz, and among these children, the activity of garbage children has grown significantly. Garbage pickers at different hours of the day and night, holding a sack, wheelbarrow, or using three-wheel motors and other similar devices, search in trash cans or garbage bags and packages at the door of houses. In this research, an attempt has been made to evaluate the lived experience of these waste pickers and provide a more accurate understanding of their situation in Ahvaz city. In the current research, according to the topic and nature of the research, the qualitative method and the interpretive phenomenological approach have been used. Various strategies such as long participation in the platform, rich description, confirmation of participants, peer review, etc. were used to validate the data. The main categories extracted include social gradients, economic failure of culture, poor health of working children, weak support from guardian institutions, hope for change and the possibility of horizontal social mobility, considering garbage collection as an honorable job and a sense of pride, being exposed to risky behaviors. Children were working. The main result of the research is based on the fact that littering is affected by different issues and should not be understood only economically. In addition, a significant part of the street working children live in the suburbs and many of them have a family member or relative.
Mohammad Hossein Moghadam, Masoumeh Bagheri,
Volume 15, Issue 3 (8-2024)
Abstract
Today, one of the emerging and expanding social issues in the big cities of Iran is the phenomenon of littering, which has faced various challenges in urban life. These challenges have severely affected people's lives, family foundations and urban management. The purpose of the upcoming research is to investigate the formation process of waste collection in the city of Ahvaz. In order to achieve this goal, an in-depth interview was conducted with 22 waste collectors in Ahvaz city using grounded theory method and targeted sampling method with theoretical sampling strategy. The findings include 12 subcategories. housing challenges, family livelihood crisis, pressure from friends and inflammatory environment, lack of sufficient and stable institutional support, cultural poverty intensifying livelihood poverty, emotional tensions within the family, the basis for the formation of a self-governing livelihood strategy, the struggle for the survival of the family livelihood, physical consequences, spiritual, environmental, social and security, 5 main categories; Economic desperation, structural pressure, tension-causing cultural background, adopting a self-governing livelihood strategy and numerous consequences of the phenomenon of littering and a main category under the title of the phenomenon of littering as a generator of social tension. The results of the research show that the process of forming the phenomenon of littering starts from family economic and cultural backgrounds and is intensified by structural pressures. In such a situation, the garbage collectors adopt a self-managed livelihood strategy that they work in garbage collection as individuals, groups or families. They reduce the concept of scavenging to an accessible independent occupation, and the consequences of such an act are physical, psychological, environmental.
