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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

De la solidarité aux menaces de mort : prise en charge des orphelins après le génocide des Tutsi 

open access: yesEnfances, Familles, Générations, 2023
Research Framework: This article is based on a PhD research in socio-anthropology about the transmission of familial memory among Rwandans living in France.
Domitille Blanco
doaj  

How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Current trends, figures and challenges in out of home child care: An internationalcomparative analysis [PDF]

open access: yesPsychosocial Intervention, 2014
This article closes the special issue of this journal about an international review of out-of-home child care, principally family foster care and residential care, tough several aspects related to adoption were included as well.
Jorge F. del Valle, Amaia Bravo
doaj   +1 more source

Orphan Vulnerability, NGOs and HIV/AIDS in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study explores orphan vulnerability following the rise in HIV/AIDS and the institutionalization of orphanages in Ghana, West Africa. Using traditional anthropological methods, including participant observation and interviews, I argue that ...
Voyk, Elaina
core  

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between kinship and foster placement on mental health indicators in children and youth seeking treatment

open access: yesChild Protection and Practice
Background: Children living in both kinship and foster care placements often face considerable adversity. It is possible that these placements can have differential impacts on children’s socioemotional, psychological, and educational outcomes and well ...
Shannon L. Stewart   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Mamaw Becomes Mom: Social Capital and Kinship Family Formation amid the Rural Opioid Crisis

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Amid the opioid crisis, the number of kinship families—or children living with relatives—has risen dramatically, particularly in rural communities. Using in-depth interviews with relative caregivers and local legal actors in Appalachian Kentucky, I ...
Kristina Brant
doaj   +1 more source

Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intersection of race and religion for youth in foster care: examining policy and practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Religion and race are primary forces affecting both individuals' identities and social relations. Consequently, their impacts on child welfare systems, and the clients of the system, are important to understand.
Collins, Mary E., Scott, Judith
core   +1 more source

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