Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon

ISBN-13: 9780415383059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 224 str.

C. Watters; Charles Watters

Opis

Refugee Children is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the problems facing refugee children in the industrialized world and the measures taken by nation states and intergovernmental bodies to address perceived problems. Key topics are discussed such as:

• the psycho-social problems, family separation, education and issues relating to acculturation and adaptation experienced by refugee children
• responses to these problems, drawing on the expertise of service providers and academic researchers to highlight a range of initiatives
• evidence of good practice in the field
• the transfer of good practice between countries
• possible development of services and academic research in this vital area.

Refugee Children is essential reading for academic researchers in the areas of social policy, education, migration and refugee studies as well as service providers in health care, social care, housing and education.

Recenzje

‘Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon epitomizes the positive contributions of the recent scholarship on refugees. While centered on the experience of refugee children, Watters’ book provides significant insights into a wide array of issues relevant to contemporary refugees, more generally … [This book] is a thought-provoking and sophisticated resource for scholars and practitioners interested in the experience of forced migrants in general and refugee youth in particular.’ - Contemporary Sociology

Spis treści

Introduction  The Health and Social Care Needs of Refugee Children  Educational Needs of Refugee Children  Key Issues in Acculturation and Adaptation  Schools Programmes - Netherlands and Canada  Health Care Programmes - Australia and the UK  Psycho-social Interventions - USA, Sweden, Spain  A Presentation of the Key Issues and Implications for Policy and Practice

O autorze

Charles Watters is currently Senior Lecturer in Mental health at the University of Kent, UK. He is also: Director of the European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care (MASC); Convenor of the European MA in Migration, Mental Health and Social Care; Convenor of the PhD programme in Migration Studies; Co-Principal Investigator ESRC Identities and Social Action programme. Identities in Transition: a longitudinal study of immigrant children.

Overseas he is a member of the International Faculty for the Culture and Mental Health Services Research Strategic Training programme, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; and Visiting Professor, University of Brasilia, Brazil