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They are laborers, soldiers, refugees, and orphans. In areas of the world torn by poverty, disease, and war, millions of children are invisible victims, deprived of home, family, and basic human rights. Their chances for a stable adult life are extremely slim.
The powerful interdisciplinary volume Vulnerable Children brings a global child-rights perspective to the lives of indigenous, refugee, and minority children in and from crisis-prone regions. Focusing on self-determination, education, security, health, and related issues, an international panel of scholars examines the structural and political sources of children's vulnerabilities and their effects on development. The book analyzes intervention programs currently in place and identifies challenges that must be met at both the community and larger policy levels. These chapters also go a long way to explain the often-blurred line between vulnerability and resilience.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Dilemmas of rights-based approaches to child well-being in an African cultural context.
- Poverty and minority children's education in the United States: The case study of a Sudanese refugee family.
- The heterogeneity of young children's experiences in Kenya and Brazil.
- A world tour of interventions for children of a parent with a psychiatric illness.
- An exploration of fosterage of Owambo orphans in Namibia.
- UNICEF in Colombia: Defending and nurturing childhood in media, public, and policy discourses.
Vulnerable Children is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians and professionals across a range of fields, including child and school psychology, social work, maternal and child health, developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, social policy, and public health.
DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, Ph.D., LMSW is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and
Robert K. Hitchcock is a Professor of Geography and Anthropology at Michigan State University. He has worked with San communities in Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Zambia since 1975, and he serves on the board of the Kalahari Peoples Fund. He worked for the government of Botswana in the Ministry of Local Government and Lands (1977-79) and Ministry of Agriculture (1980-1982) and has served as a consultant to the Department of Wildlife and National Parks in Botswana. He has also worked for the governments of Somalia, Swaziland, and Lesotho, as well as for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Bank. Books include Kalahari Cattle Posts (Government of Botswana, 1978), Endangered Peoples of Africa and the Middle East: Struggles to Survive and Thrive (co-edited with Alan Osborn, Greenwood, 2002), Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa (co-edited with Diana Vinding, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2004). He is also the co-editor, with Kazunobu Ikeya, Megan Biesele, and Richard Lee, of Updating the San: Image and Reality of an African People in the 21st Century. Senri Ethnological Studies No. 70 (Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethology, 2006). He is the co-author, with Megan Biesele, of the book Ju/'hoan San since Independence: Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Namibia (Berghan Books, 2009).
- 2014, 2013, 278 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Deborah J. Johnson, DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga, Robert K. Hitchcock
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 1461467802
- ISBN-13: 9781461467809
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2014
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