Not just a victim : the child as catalyst and witness of contemporary Africa

Not just a victim : the child as catalyst and witness of contemporary Africa / edited by Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Catrien Notermans and Erik van Ommering.

"Based on ethnographic research and inventive, child-oriented research methods, the current volume offers children's perspectives on kinship, children's experiences of work, caring, disease, migration, conflict, and many other key features of contemporary life in Africa"--Provide...

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Corporate Author: African Studies Association in the Netherlands
Other Authors: Evers, Sandra, Notermans, Catrien, 1966-, Ommering, Erik van
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 20.
Subjects:
Children > Africa > Social conditions > Congresses.
Children > Africa > Attitudes > Congresses.
Children > Government policy > Africa > Congresses.
Ethnology > Africa > Congresses.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
Children > Attitudes
Children > Government policy
Children > Social conditions
Ethnology
Africa
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Ethnographies of Children in Africa: Moving beyond Stereotypical Representations and Paradigms; Bending the Generational Rules: Agency of Children and Young People in 'Child-Headed' Households; Using a "Kids Club Method" to Understand Experiences of Children Orphaned by AIDS in North-Central Namibia; Understanding Children's Well-Being and Transitions Through the Life Course: A Case from Ethiopia; Kinning in the Imagination: Perceptions of Kinship and Family History among Chagossian Children in Mauritius
  • From Home to the Street: Children's Street-Ward Migration in Cape VerdeGendered Work and Schooling in Rural Ethiopia: Exploring Working Children's Perspectives; In Between the Netherlands and Morocco: 'Home' and Belonging of Dutch Moroccan Return Migrant and Abandoned Children in Northeast Morocco; The Learning Experiences of Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Children: A Model for Meaningful Learning; Reconceptualising Child Protection Interventions in Situations of Chronic Conflict: North Kivu, DRC
  • Agency, Resilience and the Psychosocial Well-Being of Caregiving Children: Experiences from Western KenyaAbout the authors; Index

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