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Title 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
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 275 pages) : illustrations
Series Afrika-studiecentrum series ; v. 20
Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 20.
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
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Evers, Sandra.
Notermans, Catrien, 1966-
Ommering, Erik van
African Studies Association in the Netherlands.
ISBN 9789004205222
9004205225
1283121190
9781283121194
9786613121196
6613121193