Many of the street children in the study area, Bahir Dar, are rural-urban migrants. Thernpresent study investigates the livelihood and survival strategies of migrant streetrnchildren. It further looks at the causes of migration of children and the social networksrnthey maintain among themselves and to their rural villages. Structuration Theory andrnLivelihood Approach are adopted to look at the issues to get insights about how streetrnchildren are making a living in the study area. Structuration Theory has been appliedtornlook at the research problem from different perspectives. It is employed to realize thernfactors that shape the life of street children in the urban social system. Children makernpart of the structure of the urban life and as actors are striving to adjust themselves tornlivelihood outcomes. Livelihood approach has been adapted to look at the diverse streetrnbased economic activities of children and how they adapt survival mechanisms to meetrntheir basic needs. In this study qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection .are used. Thernqualitative method is used to understand the view of migrant street children and theirrnlived experience while the quantitative method is us?d to supplement the data collectedrnthrough qualitative one. Interviews, focus group discussion, and observation are used asrninstruments of data collection. Migrant street children' as the subjects of this study werernselected Ji'om Bahir Dar TQwn, using purposive snowball sampling to get insights aboutrntheir lives. The data collected are triangulated and cross-checked to check reliability andrnvalidity of information. The study shows that children driftedfrom different pacts of the country into the studyrnarea and the children left their rural villages Qn their O1'Vn and without a,ny parental sayrnon their decision to migrate. They also come from families with large size in their rU(alrnlocalities, Migration does not lead them to lose contpct with their rural fQlk except in fewrncases. Children migrate into the study area as a result of interwoven and var.ious factorsrnincluding poverty, disagreement with their families, death of parents (either ~oth or onernof their parents), in search of education and others, It has been found that increasedrnmigration of rural children was aggravated due to rural po~erty, This study also showsrnthat street children are engaged in div~rse liyelihood activities that req1!ire differentrntypes of assets of which labor is the most decisive one that enables them to earn incomerneither directly in wage employment .or indirectly through the production of goods andrnservices sold in the informal market, 111 the.ir day 1.0 dqy survival scel?ario, street childrenrninteract among themselves through various informal social networks characterized byrnhierarchies. Th~ir sodal networks are also important to stre,ngthen the capability ofrngroups' members to reduce vulnerability and be more beneficial to livelihood outcomes. Key- Words: Livelihood, Survival Strategy, Strcturatiol1 Theory