Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/09075682211063691
P. Fronek, Karen S. Rotabi-Casares, Robert Common
Intercountry adoption (ICA) is a contested practice represented by competing discourses of humanitarianism, exploitation, poverty and wealth. Multiple factors have contributed to decreasing numbers of adoption globally including documented incidents of fraud which have accumulated over the last two decades. There is little recompense for families subjected to the fraudulent removal of their children, the children, and adoptive parents who are also defrauded. This article reports on the troubled progression of fraudulent ICA, presents a case of fraud and novel restitution in Samoa and concludes that restitution pathways should also facilitate contact and reunification of children with their families.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01Epub Date: 2021-07-27DOI: 10.1177/09075682211020067
Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Marnina Gonick, Tuyen Bui
Despite the fact that most countries have ratified the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, girls with disabilities experience multiple forms of violence and oppression. Using a critical approach to arts-based research, we argue that while disabled girls experience multiple vulnerabilities due to the structural conditions which exposed them to violence, the use of participatory visual methods allowed them to reframe their stories. This article discusses the implications for reconceptualizing diverse childhoods in relation to methodologies for empowering disabled girls.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1177/09075682211029992
Sissel H Eriksen, Emebet Mulugeta
Based on Article 31(1), the rights of the child to rest and leisure, and applying sociology of childhood as our theoretical approach, we investigated leisure and play among working children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Data from 45 qualitative interviews shows that the reasons behind work vary among children. For some, the primary motivation for work is getting money for recreation, while others are obliged to help families. Accordingly, leisure and play have different meanings for different children.
{"title":"Leisure time of working children in Addis Ababa","authors":"Sissel H Eriksen, Emebet Mulugeta","doi":"10.1177/09075682211029992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682211029992","url":null,"abstract":"Based on Article 31(1), the rights of the child to rest and leisure, and applying sociology of childhood as our theoretical approach, we investigated leisure and play among working children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Data from 45 qualitative interviews shows that the reasons behind work vary among children. For some, the primary motivation for work is getting money for recreation, while others are obliged to help families. Accordingly, leisure and play have different meanings for different children.","PeriodicalId":47764,"journal":{"name":"Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47646065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1177/09075682211033018
Beatrice Scutaru
This article uses a life-course approach to investigate how and why migrants’ feelings of belonging change between childhood and young adulthood. Drawing on 24 in-depth retrospective interviews with young Romanian migrants who moved to Italy as children, the paper shows how young migrants’ belonging is shaped by the nature of social relations and by the level of acceptance or exclusion expressed by others in the receiving and origin countries, under specific institutional and socioeconomic contexts. Overall, the study demonstrates how life-course methodologies are an essential tool to capture the dynamic, changing nature of belonging.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.1177/09075682211021748
Sarada Balagopalan
With the global pandemic having disproportionately affected adults, the caregiving roles of children have garnered increased media attention. This belated visibility has, however, tended to reproduce the racialized and classed hierarchies that mask children’s caregiving in contexts of precarity. While the caregiving actions of middle-class children now circulate within a more affective register as small acts of kindness, the everyday caregiving roles of marginal children in the majority world largely continue to be naturalized and made invisible. In stark contrast, existing research on these children’s caregiving practices has skillfully analyzed its temporal, spatial, relational, and structural workings (Dearden et al., 2000; Evans et al., 2009, 2019; Garcia-Sanchez, 2018). However, the extent to which Childhood Studies has been able to engage the broader implications of children’s caregiving within precarious contexts in the majority world remains ambiguous. Could recognizing the different relationalities that these caregiving practices mark help realign our existing reluctance? Through briefly engaging existing research on marginal children’s caregiving and reading this together with efforts to historicize and reevaluate these different relationalities, including the challenge these pose to neoliberalism’s subjective technologies, I offer some preliminary ideas around a potential reframing. With different levels of immersion in household and domestic chores marking most children’s lives across the world, research focused on children’s caregiving has been careful to distinguish between varying intensities in caregiving roles (Evans, 2014; Ochs and Izquierdo, 2009). Broadly speaking, scholarship on children’s caring identities in the global North has concentrated on families with impairments and chronic illness as well as on the roles played by migrant children as “care brokers” (Garcia-Sanchez, 2018; Orellana, 2009; Yarris, 2017). In majority world contexts, research has foreground how caregiving is embedded within everyday aspects of children’s social roles and has traced how disease, death, and global economic processes exacerbate these expectations (Abebe 2013; Evans, 2014; Evans and Becker, 2009; Hunleth, 2017). This research has helped highlight relationality as a key aspect of children’s caregiving (Evans et al., 2019; Horten et al., 2017; Ribbens McCarthy and Gillies, 2018). Discussing Zambian children’s attempts to become closer to ill guardians, in contexts where infectious disease is interwoven into everyday life, Hunleth (2017) frames this as, “a process of commensurability in which some children and ill adults forged—or attempted to forge—a common vulnerability, one in which boundaries between healthy and sick, adult, and child became blurred” (p. 10). Her analysis of caregiving as “many things all at the same time” resonates strongly with Evans et al. (2019) mapping of how children’s geographers have 1021748 CHD0010.1177/0907568221
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Pub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.1177/09075682211032719
Aireen Grace T. Andal
This article investigates journal influence of childhood studies journals in 2011–2019. Using CiteScore metrics, results show that childhood studies journals have gained influence over the past decade, suggesting that research in childhood has become more visible. However, certain journals flourish disproportionately within the network of childhood research. Overall, the findings demonstrate the rapid maturation of childhood studies as a discipline and the increasing relevance of journals in the process. Overall, the results serve as signposts for the direction of childhood studies and reminders to childhood scholars of their responsibility to maintain the integrity in childhood studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.1177/09075682211026948
Elizabeth Walton
This article questions how we might continue to envision an open and inviting engagement between the terrains of childhood studies and queer theory. Matters of childhood innocence in particular are problematised throughout. The paper builds on the offerings of queer of colour scholarship and women of colour feminism, endeavouring to contribute to an emergent childhood studies that is informed by queer and feminist understandings that uphold the materiality and lived experience of the child, both in theory and in practice.
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In this article we examine the process of construction and transformation of the meanings surrounding the serious violations of the Right to Identity in Argentina and Chile, which encompass from child appropriations during dictatorships to so called “irregular adoptions.” We inquire about how activists have built their public claims of justice and reparation. We discuss the singularities and differences of these processes in both countries and the current challenges, particularly in the construction of those affected as victims of human rights violations.
{"title":"Child appropriations and irregular adoptions: Activism for the “right to identity,” justice, and reparation in Argentina and Chile","authors":"Soledad Gesteira, Irene Salvo Agoglia, Carla Villalta, Karen Alfaro Monsalve","doi":"10.1177/09075682211028648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682211028648","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we examine the process of construction and transformation of the meanings surrounding the serious violations of the Right to Identity in Argentina and Chile, which encompass from child appropriations during dictatorships to so called “irregular adoptions.” We inquire about how activists have built their public claims of justice and reparation. We discuss the singularities and differences of these processes in both countries and the current challenges, particularly in the construction of those affected as victims of human rights violations.","PeriodicalId":47764,"journal":{"name":"Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/09075682211028648","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42990900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-26DOI: 10.1177/09075682211027226
K. Cheney
Despite closing a legal guardianship loophole that enabled foreign prospective adoptive parents to bypass restrictive Ugandan adoption laws in 2016, corruption in intercountry adoption persisted, with the courts legitimating new end-runs around the requirements. But US sanctions issued in 2020 bring new hope for reform. By highlighting what children’s advocates are doing to fight back, I suggest strategies for effective child and family safeguarding practices against adoption corruption as well as efforts to seek justice for affected children and families.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-25DOI: 10.1177/09075682211025587
Erika Jiménez
Scholars in childhood research have been reconsidering whether the participation of children and young people in sensitive research is necessary. This paper questions whether some of these objections arise out of colonial attitudes towards childhood, young people, human rights, and research. This paper draws on a participatory study that sought to ascertain how Palestinian young people construct their understandings of human rights. Discussion of some of the local perspectives and decolonial strategies offered by the Young People’s Advisory Groups show how they facilitated the voices of their peers safely and decolonised concepts of participation and protection in the process.
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