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Title Social justice for children in the south / Graciela H. Tonon, editor
Published Singapore : Springer, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages : illustrations (some color))
Series Evidence-based approaches to peace and conflict studies ; volume 9
Evidence-based approaches to peace and conflict studies ; v. 9.
Contents Children’s Social Vulnerability and Social Justice in the South -- Social Justice as a State Policy: Children’s Rights in South America -- Public Spending and Investment in Children: Measuring and Assessing Social and Economic Justice -- A Social Justice Perspective on Children’s Well-Being: Considerations for Children’s Rights in the Context of COVID-19 -- The Daily Life of Children During the Confinement Stage Due to the COVID 19 Pandemic -- Towards a Nuanced Understanding of Children's Participation and Realizing Social Justice in the Urban Realm: A Case Study in the Classroom with Ethnic Minority Children -- Child Soldiers as Victims or as Perpetrators? An Analysis of the Case of Colombia -- Adolescents' Expectations and Wellbeing Perceptions in Mumbai's Hinterland and Its Slums: What Means 'to Become Someone' in Early XXI Century in Maharastra? -- Children as Capable Agents and Citizen: Empowering Children and Youth -- Social Justice---From Potential to Practice: The Shared Benefit of Change for Children
Summary This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South. It presents a theoretical review of social justice as well as different situations of vulnerability children experience in their daily lives in which they can be injured, affecting their well-being and the exercise of their rights. It examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, considered as a vulnerable group warranting special social policy considerations. It also presents the need to change power structures in knowledge production and decision-making processes to achieve social justice for children; the importance of investing in children; the exclusion of children from participation in certain activities and the shame of not being able to participate in equal conditions with others; the lives of migrant children belonging to ethnic minorities exposed to language barriers and access to technological devices; and the analysis of the process of social re-integration of children from conditions of armed conflict. The book concludes that governments need to assume social justice as part of universal human interests, providing security, conditions for well-being, and guaranteeing social justice for all children
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 22, 2022)
Subject Children's rights -- Southern Hemisphere
Children -- Southern Hemisphere -- Social conditions
Social justice -- Southern Hemisphere
Children -- Social conditions
Children's rights
Social justice
Southern Hemisphere
Form Electronic book
Author Tonon de Toscano, Graciela, editor.
ISBN 9789811950452
9811950458