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Hyperreality, Polarization and Prejudice: Social Media Descriptions of Swedish Child Welfare Services

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the Swedish child welfare services (CWSs) are described in Arabic‐speaking social media, with a focus on the ‘LVU campaign.’ The material consists of Facebook and YouTube posts and comments about the Swedish CWSs' actions in child mistreatment cases involving migrant families.
Dana Sofi, Jonas Stier, Emmie Wahlström
wiley   +1 more source

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

Poor Children in Our School? Child Poverty‐Related Beliefs and Practices Among Primary School‐Based Professionals in Finland

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite being viewed as highly equal welfare societies, child poverty remains an unsolved problem in the Nordic countries. This article investigates the various types of institutionalised, underlying beliefs about child poverty held by professionals working within the Finnish primary school system, and how these assumptions shape school ...
Christa Järvinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental Understandings of ‘Stranger Danger’: Balancing Fear of Victimisation by Strangers Against Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Children

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades, children have been taught about ‘stranger danger’. Fear of the stranger has been associated with overly cautious parenting strategies, and the curtailing of freedoms as children transition to adolescents. This article aims to examine the extent to which parents consider this issue of stranger danger in their decisions to grant ...
Craig Collie
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution, scale, and drivers of mass mortality events in Europe's freshwater bivalves

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mass mortality events (MMEs) are decimating populations and compromising key ecosystem functions around the globe. One taxon particularly vulnerable to MMEs is freshwater bivalve mollusks. This group has important ecosystem engineering capacities and includes highly threatened and highly invasive taxa.
Daniel A. Cossey   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric sanctions and corruption: Theory and practice in China

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Asymmetric punishment of partners in crime, intended to incentivize whistle‐blowing, may increase detection and deterrence. The idea is age‐old but its use against corruption is not frequent. We study a 1997 Chinese reform that strengthened such asymmetries for some forms of bribery.
Maria Perrotta Berlin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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