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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Forced Migration |
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Forced migration.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; Introduction; Part I: The Contexts of War; Chapter 1: Separated Children; Chapter 2: Cultural Disruption and the Care of Infants in Post-war Mozambique; Part II: Vulnerability and Resilience among Adolescent Girls; Chapter 3: The Sexual Vulnerability of Adolescent Girls during Civil War in Teso, Uganda; Chapter 4: A Neglected Perspective; Part III: What is a Child?; Chapter 5: The Use of Patriarchal Imagery in the Civil War in Mozambique and its Implications for the Regeneration of Child Soldiers |
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Chapter 6: Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of FRELIMO's 'Female Detachment'Chapter 7: Children, Impunity and Justice: Some Dilemmas from Northern Uganda; Part IV: Children's Narratives; Chapter 8: Children in the Grey Spaces Between War and Peace: The Uncertain Truth of Memory Acts; Chapter 9: Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children's Identities in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan; Part V: Research Methodology and Methods; Chapter 10: Researching Young People's Experiences of War: Participatory Methods and the Trauma Discourse in Angola |
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Chapter 11: Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant Youth in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil WarChapter 12: Anthropology Under Fire: Ethics, Researchers and Children in War; Postscript; Chapter 13: 'Where Wings Take Dream': on Children in the Work of War and the War of Work; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers of young people, undermines thousands of others psychologically and deprives many of the economic, educational, health and social opportunities which most of us consider essential for children's effective growth and well being. Based on detailed ethnographic description and on young people's |
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Print version record |
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Children and war.
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Children -- Relocation
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Children and violence.
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Child soldiers.
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Child psychology.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Child psychology
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Child soldiers
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Children and violence
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Children and war
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berry, Joanna de
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| ISBN |
9781782381891 |
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1782381899 |
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