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Bringing Children Back into the Family

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Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY/SSCH) Volume 27

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Bringing Children Back into the Family: Relationality, Connectedness and Home

Edited by

Sam Frankel

King’s University College at Western University, Canada

Sally McNamee

King’s University College at Western University, Canada

Series Editor

Loretta E. Bass

The University of Oklahoma, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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To our children: Kate, David, Laura, Ruari, Rosie, Maria and Elsie.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Author Biographies

Olayinka Akanle, PhD, is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of The Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a Research Associate of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests cover Childhood and Gender Studies, Family in post-colonial Africa, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Sociology of Development and Social Theory.

Bree Akesson is an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Faculty of Social Work in Canada. Her research focusses on the impact of war on children and families, and she is currently exploring the biopsychosocial impact of war-related home demolitions on families and communities.

Hansel Alejandro Aguilar Avila is originally from Honduras and has served as an unaccompanied immigrant minors’ case manager, where he developed his interest for the subject matter. He earned his BA from Rutgers, the State University of NJ, in Sociology and Criminal Justice, and his MA in Sociology from George Mason University, where he is currently a PhD candidate focussing on the intersection of transnationalism, crime and human rights.

Ruth Evans, University of Reading, UK, led Death in the family in urban Senegal research project (funded by The Leverhulme Trust). She has published widely on care and family relations in Africa and the UK, including ‘Interpreting family struggles in West Africa across Majority-Minority world boundaries’ (Gender, Place & Culture, 2019).

Dr Catherine Forde is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork. She teaches children and young people’s rights and participation on undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. Her main publication interests are community development; state–civil society relations and children and young people’s participation. She is a Co-author of the book Social Work and Community Development: A Critical Practice Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Sam Frankel is an Associate Professor at King’s University College at Western University Canada and is a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (with previous associations at the University of Central Lancashire and Sheffield University, UK). He is passionate about breaking down barriers between theory and practice reflected in recent publications, including Giving Children a Voice (2018), Negotiating Childhoods (2017) and a recent co-edited collection Contextualizing Childhoods (2018), as well as through involvement in children’s voice organisations EquippingKids (UK) and EquippingKids Canada.

Omri Grinberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University (Jonathan Shapiro Fund) and at the Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2019, he completed his PhD (Anthropology and Jewish Studies) at the University of Toronto, with a dissertation titled Writing Rights, Writing Violence: The Bureaucracy of Palestinian Testimonies in Israeli NGOs.

Dr Deirdre Horgan is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork. Her research interests include child welfare and protection, children and young people’s participation, children’s research methods and child migration. She has conducted a number of funded research projects using child participatory methods as well as reporting on Irish government consultations with children on a range of policy issues. She is Co-investigator on a Horizon 2020 project IMMERSE on the socio-educational integration of migrant children in Europe.

Michelle Janning is a Professor of Sociology and the Raymond and Elsie DeBurgh Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Her interdisciplinary research, teaching and public speaking engagements focus on the intersections of family life and material culture. Her recent books include The stuff of family life: How our homes reflect our lives (2017) and Love letters: Saving romance in the digital age (2018).

Fatou Kébé is a Sociologist with a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) from the University Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal. She is a researcher working in the fields of poverty, young people’s sexuality, access to health, food security, child nutrition, and social transfers, and is currently working on an interventionist research project on maternal and infant health funded by CRDI.

Dr Shirley Martin is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork. She has conducted a number of research projects in the area of early childhood and child and youth participation. She is the Irish Primary Investigator for a Horizon 2020 Project IMMERSE (Integration mapping of Refugee and Migrant Children in Schools in Europe).

Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Open University and University of Reading, UK, has published extensively on the sociology of children’s family lives, including the UK, China and Senegal. Her recent work includes, Family Troubles? Exploring Changes and Challenges in the Family Lives of Children and Young People (2013), Policy Press (with Hooper and Gillies).

Sally McNamee has been teaching and researching childhood since the early 1990s. She has previously worked at the Universities of Hull, Sheffield and Bradford (UK) and is currently an Associate Professor at King’s University College at Western, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of numerous articles, and The Social Study of Childhood: An Introduction (2016, London: Palgrave Macmillan). This present volume represents her final contribution before her retirement. She would like to express her gratitude and appreciation for her colleagues and students, past and present.

Jana Mikats is a Research Associate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Graz, Austria and a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Vienna, Austria. In her doctoral dissertation, she researches family practices in the context of home-based work. Her research interests include family sociology, childhood studies, gender studies and qualitative methods.

Mackenzie Mountford is a recent graduate of the Childhood and Social Institutions Program at King’s University College, Western University, Ontario, Canada. She is currently working as a Teaching Assistant as she prepares an application for postgraduate study.

Maria Alice Nogueira is a Professor of Sociology of Education and Coordinator of Social Observatory Family-School (OSFE) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Her research has focussed on family–school relationships, elite schooling and social advantage in education.

Cibele Noronha de Carvalho is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Brazil. Her research focusses on childhood material culture, especially the relations among childhood, domestic space and the city.

Ewajesu Opeyemi Okewumi holds a master’s degree from the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Her research interests include sociology of development and development studies, rural sociology, social theory, child, youth, gender and the family in post-colonial Africa.

Irene Salvo holds a PhD in Psychology, University of Buenos Aires. She is a Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Alberto Hurtado University. Her research interests include Family and Childhood and Adoption studies.

Mauricio Sepúlveda has a PhD in Anthropology, University of Rovira and Virgili. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chile. His research interests include subjectivity, governmentality, drug consumption and sexuality.

Julie Seymour is a Reader in Sociology at the Hull York Medical School in Hull, UK. She researches family dynamics in health, hospitality and migration. She is a Co-editor of Displaying Families (2011, with Esther Dermott) and Children’s Spatialities: Embodiment, Emotion and Agency (2015, with Abigail Hackett and Lisa Procter).

Tamanna M. Shah is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Utah, USA. She has interest in comparative political sociology, gender and race, social change and inequality. Previously, she was the Head of Policy Advocacy and Research at IL&FS Education and Technology Services Ltd., India. She has authored journal articles and other publications, notably, Adjustment to Divorce (Spouses) for the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies, Chaos and fear: Creativity and Hope in an uncertain world in International Sociology and book chapters on innovation, sustainability issues and job readiness of the youth. She has also worked with Asian Development Bank on water and sanitation policy papers.

Ana Vergara holds a PhD in Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield. She is a Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, Diego Portales University, Chile. Her research interests include sociology of childhood; childhood studies; critical discourse analysis and ethnography of childhood.

Vita Yakovlyeva holds a PhD in Social Theory and Cultural Studies from the University of Alberta. She is a Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada. Her research lies at the intersection of the study of memories of childhood and the actual experiences of children.

Dr Guo Yu is an Associate Professor in the School of Labour and Human Resources at Renmin University of China. Her research interests include Public Old-age Pensions, Poverty and Social Assistance, Elderly Care and Children Welfare.

Yan Zhu is a Doctoral Researcher in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in sociological understandings of children’s everyday relationships with others. Her doctoral research was a China-based project about children’s friendships at school. She is a Reviewer for the journal Families, Relationships and Societies.

Acknowledgements

We initiated this project because we felt there was a real gap in the literature. We have been pleased but also a little surprised at the reaction to the proposal that we shared. Scholars from around the world felt drawn to sharing their views on this issue with us – and we are so grateful to everyone who got in touch. This project could have turned into multiple volumes and although we have managed to keep it at one (for now) there are many who could have contributed but for varying reasons were not able to. We, therefore, thank those who took part, we encourage those who thought about it and we hope that this collection inspires others to enter into a dialogue about ‘bringing children back into the family’.

As with any project like this, we are very grateful to the team at Emerald for their support, guidance and patience. An additional thank you to all the contributors for their flexibility and for meeting those ‘deadlines’.

We are grateful for the support we get from our colleagues at King’s and particularly to the enthusiasm of our students who we are always learning from.

I (Sam) wish to add a personal acknowledgement to Sally. This is her last publication before retiring and I feel very fortunate to have had her as a collaborator. Working on projects together has been a lot of fun. I am so grateful for her attention to detail, her wisdom and her willingness to engage with my many and varied ideas. I will really miss working together!