Children's lives in Southern Europe : contemporary challenges and risks / edited by Lourdes Gaitán [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Gaitán Muñoz, Lourdes, editor.

Series:

Southern European societies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Southern Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary book provides a sociological view of the contemporary experiences of children in Southern Europe. Focusing on regions deeply affected by the 2008 economic crisis, it offers a detailed investigation into the impact of economic downturn and austerity on the lives of children. Established childhood studies and sociology researchers unpack recent changes in the quality of children's lives and our understanding of children's rights in the modern world. Focusing first on contemporary changes to children's forms of living, the book then turns to the prevalence of poverty in Southern Europe, before scrutinising the experiences of migrant and highly mobile children. Illustrating these experiences with key case studies from across Southern Europe, this book presents a powerful critique of the promises and pitfalls of structural changes to children-centred public policy. This informative book is essential reading for academics and higher-level students of childhood studies. Policy makers and practitioners in education, law, health, social services and children's rights organizations in need of strong, empirical research into childhood experiences will appreciate the thorough case studies analysed in the book"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword: Childhood and social exclusion - a sociology of the South? / Manuel Jacinto Sarmento

1. Introduction / Lourdes Gaitán

Part I: Current changes in children's forms of living

2. Introduction to Part I / Catarina Tomás

3. Family and childhood: the impact of the crisis in the case of Greece / Foteini Kougioumoutzaki

4. Institutionalization and familization of childhood through leisure/sport activities in Italy / Caterina Satta

5. Changes to children's forms of living in contemporary Portugal / Ana Nunes de Almeida and Vasco Ramos

6. Intergenerational solidarity in times of crisis: new relationships between children and grandparents in Spain / Lourdes Gaitán and María Sánchez-Domínguez

Part II: Child poverty and children's well-being in southern Europe

7. Introduction to Part II / Natália Fernandes

8. Poverty, well-being and educational opportunities for children in contemporary Greece: the cases of two after-school programmes / Yannis Pechtelidis and Stelios Pantazidis

9. Poorest of all: A case study of Roma children in Italy / Maria Teresa Tagliaventi

10. Child poverty in Portugal: the crisis from children's perspectives / Manuel Jacinto Sarmento and Gabriela de Pina Trevisan

11. Austerity and children's well-being in Spain: a capability approach perspective / Lucía del Moral-Espín and Mónica Domínguez-Serrano

Part III: Migrant children and children on the move

12. Introduction to Part III / Yannis Pechtelidis

13. Language education policy discourses on refugee children: evidence from the Greek context / Anastasia G. Stamou and Angeliki Kiliari

14. Unaccompanied minors in Sicily: promoting conceptualizations of child well-being through children's own subjective realities / Ravinder Barn, Roberta T. Di Rosa and Gabriella Argento

15. Migrant children in Portuguese schools: the case of Brazilian pupils / Teresa Seabra and Sandra Mateus

16. Migrant children and local policies regarding reunified children in Spain / Elisa Brey

Part IV: Conclusions

17. Conclusions / Lourdes Gaitán, Yannis Pechtelidis, Catarina Tomás and Natália Fernandes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78990-124-3