Child Protection in Development (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bourdillon, Michael; Myers, William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers suggestions for reform of current child protection policies, based on empirical findings around a range of child protection concerns, including children's work, independent migration, family separation, early marriage and military occupation.

This book was published as a special issue of Development in Practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317980148
• Artikelnr.: 58399578

Autorenporträt

Michael Bourdillon is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe and an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He has worked with street children in Harare, and with working children locally and internationally; and he has published extensively in this field. William Myers is retired from the United Nations, where he addressed child work issues with UNICEF and the ILO. He is currently an associate in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: Development, children, and protection Part I
Things Fall Apart 2. Beyond war: "Suffering" among displaced Congolese
children in Dar es Salaam 3. Protecting children from trafficking in Benin:
In need of politics and participation 4. The spatialization of child
protection: notes from the occupied Palestinian territory 5. Following the
law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya Part II. The
Importance of Context 6. Children's migration for work in Bangladesh: The
policy implications of intra-household relations 7. Child protection and
harmful traditional practices: female early marriage and genital
modification in Ethiopia 8. Global priorities against local context:
Protecting Bhutanese refugee children in Nepal Part III. The Effects of
Poverty 9. Rethinking orphanhood and vulnerability in Ethiopia 10.
Children's responses to risk in agricultural work in Andhra Pradesh, India
11. "Risky Lives": Risk and protection for children growing-up in poverty
Part IV. Interventions 12. Action research exploring information
communication technologies (ICT) and child protection in Thailand 13. Child
protection: A role for conditional cash transfer programmes? 14. Listening
to Iraqi refugee children in Jordan, but then what? Exploring the impact of
participatory research with children Part V. Reflections 15. Concluding
reflections: How might we really protect children?