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Lourdes Gaitán, Yannis Pechtelidis, Catarina Tomás, Natália Fernandes - Children's Lives in Southern Europe, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Children's Lives in Southern Europe

Contemporary Challenges and Risks

Av Lourdes Gaitán, Yannis Pechtelidis, Catarina Tomás, Natália Fernandes

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This interdisciplinary book provides a sociological view of the contemporary experiences of children in Southern Europe. Focusing on regions deeply affected by the 2008 economic crisis, it offers a detailed investigation into the impact of economic downturn and austerity on the lives of children.Established childhood studies and sociology researchers unpack recent changes in the quality of children's lives and our understanding of children's rights in the modern world. Focusing first on contemporary changes to children's forms of living, the book then turns to the prevalence of poverty in Southern Europe, before scrutinising the experiences of migrant and highly mobile children. Illustrating these experiences with key case studies from across Southern Europe, this book presents a powerful critique of the promises and pitfalls of structural changes to children-centred public policy.This informative book is essential reading for academics and higher-level students of childhood studies. Policy makers and practitioners in education, law, health, social services and children's rights organizations in need of strong, empirical research into childhood experiences will appreciate the thorough case studies analysed in the book.Contributors include: G. Argento, R. Barn, E. Brey, R.T. Di Rosa, M. Domínguez-Serrano, N. Fernándes, L. Gaitán, A. Kiliari, F. Kougioumoutzaki, S. Mateus, L. del Moral-Espín, A. Nunes de Almeida, S. Pantazidis, Y. Pechtelidis, V. Ramos, M. Sánchez-Domínguez, M.J. Sarmento, C. Satta, T. Seabra, A.G. Stamou, M.T. Tagliaventi, C. Tomás, G. de Pina Trevisan
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Edited by Lourdes Gaitán, Founding Member, Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence Group (GSIA), Secretary, Committee of Sociology of Childhood (FES) and Co-director, Sociedad e Infancias Journal, Spain, Yannis Pechtelidis, Associate Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Thessaly, Greece, Catarina Tomás, Assistant Professor, Lisbon Polytechnic Institute and Researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), Portugal and Natália Fernandes, Assistant Professor, University of Minho and Researcher, Research Centre on Child Studies (CIEC), Portugal

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'Children's Lives in Southern Europe is an insightful, well-written, and timely volume focusing on a neglected but radically changing region of Europe. The diverse chapters provide comprehensive discussion of children's lives and agency at the macro and micro level with important insights for social policy. A ground-breaking work in childhood studies.'--William A. Corsaro, Author of The Sociology of Childhood and We're Friends, Right?: Inside Kids' Culture'This book offers an essential contribution to understanding the challenges faced by children in Southern Europe through the years of ''austerity'' and the ''refugee crisis''. The four editors combine a deep understanding of their own countries with a powerful theoretical orientation to taking children seriously as social actors and as citizens. The combination of detailed contextual information with vivid case studies is a real strength. For anyone with an interest in the reality of childhood, and the prospects for children's lives, in Southern Europe this will be an invaluable source of information and ideas.'--Nigel Patrick Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, UK'This book presents a rich and stimulating collection of contributions on a neglected focus in the English speaking world. The chapters provide a fresh and rewarding exploration of children's lives in Southern Europe; especially children's well-being, experiences of migration and poverty. The book draws on theory, primary and secondary data and will be an invaluable resource for students wishing to understand childhood in the Mediterranean arena.'--Tom Cockburn, Edge Hill University, UK

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