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Title: Children's Lives in Southern Europe
Condition: New
Subtitle: Contemporary Challenges and Risks
ISBN-10: 1789901235
EAN: 9781789901238
ISBN: 9781789901238
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 03/02/2020
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Contributor: Lourdes Gaitán (Edited by), Natália Fernandes (Edited by), Yannis Pechtelidis (Edited by), Catarina Tomás (Edited by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: Southern European Societies series
Topic: Social Sciences
Author: Lourdes Gaitán
Release Year: 2020
Description: 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.

Contributors include: G. Argento, R. Barn, E. Brey, R.T. Di Rosa, M. Domínguez-Serrano, N. Fernándes, L. Gaitán, A. Kiliari, F. Kougioumoutzaki, S. Mateus, L. del Moral-Espín, A. Nunes de Almeida, S. Pantazidis, Y. Pechtelidis, V. Ramos, M. Sánchez-Domínguez, M.J. Sarmento, C. Satta, T. Seabra, A.G. Stamou, M.T. Tagliaventi, C. Tomás, G. de Pina Trevisan

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