Child welfare systems and migrant children : a cross country study of policies and practice / / edited by Marit Skivenes [and three others] ; contributors, Ravinder Barn [and fifteen others]

• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.7/7912
• Soggetto topico: Child welfare; Immigrant children
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SkivenesMarit; BarnRavinder
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Series; Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Families: An Introduction; Part I Family Service-Oriented Child Welfare Systems Within Social Democratic Welfare States; 2 How the Finnish Child Protection System Meets the Needs of Migrant Families and Children; 3 How the Norwegian Child Welfare System Approaches Migrant Children; 4 Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System: The Netherlands; 5 Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System in Austria ; Part II Family Service-Oriented Child Welfare Systems Within Conservative (and Latin) Welfare States6 Child Welfare Systems and Immigrant Families: The Case of Spain; 7 Public Services and Migrant Minors in Italy: Redefining Skills for Social Work; Part III Child Protection-Oriented Child Welfare Systems Within Liberal Welfare States; 8 The United States: Child Protection in the Context of Competing Policy Mandates; 9 Child Welfare Systems and Immigrant Families: Canada; 10 Child Welfare and Migrant Families and Children: A Case Study of England ; 11 Child Protection of Migrants in Australia12 Immigrant Children and Families in the Estonian Child Protection System; Part IV Concluding Remarks; 13 Migrant Children and Child Welfare Systems: A Contested Challenge; Appendix-Survey Method Overview; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The book examines where, why and to what extent immigrant children are represented in the child welfare system in different countries. These countries include Australia/New Zealand, Belgium/the Netherlands, England, Estonia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Norway, and the United States--all of them having different child welfare philosophies and systems as well as histories and practices in immigration. By comparing policies and practices in child welfare systems (and welfare states), especially in terms of how they conceptualize and deal with immigrant children and their families, we
• Titolo autorizzato: Child welfare systems and migrant children
• ISBN: 0-19-020530-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463825103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International policy exchange series.