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Marit Skivenes, Ravinder Barn, Katrin Kriz, Tarja PÖsÖ - Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children

A Cross Country Study of Policies and Practice

Av Marit Skivenes, Ravinder Barn, Katrin Kriz, Tarja PÖsÖ

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The book examines where, why and to what extent immigrant children are represented in the child welfare system in different countries. These countries include Australia/New Zealand, Belgium/the Netherlands, England, Estonia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Norway, and the United States--all of them having different child welfare philosophies and systems as well as histories and practices in immigration. By comparing policies and practices in child welfare systems (and welfare states), especially in terms of how they conceptualize and deal with immigrant children and their families, we address an immensely important and pressing issue in modern societies. Immigrants in the child welfare system are a critical issue and they seem to face serious challenges that are evident across countries. These are challenges related to lack of language proficiency, lack of knowledge about cultural and social aspects and about the public systems of the destination country. Perhaps most relevantly, the challenges may include collisions of ideas and beliefs about how to raise children, about children's place in the family and society, and about children's rights.
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Marit Skivenes is a Faculty of Health and Social work, Bergen University College & Department of Administration and Organization Theory, Bergen University, Norway.Ravinder Barn is professor of social policy in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology. She was awarded her doctorate in 'Race and Ethnic Relations' in 1989 by the University of Warwick. Ravinder joined Royal Holloway, University of London in 1990 as Lecturer in Applied Social Studies. In 2004, she was awarded a personal chair.Katrin Kriz is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the College Honors Program at Emmanuel College Boston.Tarja Pösö, professor in Social Work at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, her research interests have recently focused on child protection.

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"The authors of these international perspectives on government policies for child-welfare-involved migrant children and families present an outstanding summary of current practices and problems. Organizing the 11 country chapters into three parts according to welfare state typologies, the editors overlay a convincing frame that global migration has political, economic, and social roots. Each country's narrative introduces readers to the history and scope ofthe problem of migrant children and offers an overview of its child protection system, including professional training of its workforce. This [is a] clear and comprehensive cross-national comparison ofa growing issue of global concern to social work. Recommended." --J. C. Altman, CHOICE Magazine

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