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Human service work is performed in many places - hospitals,
shelters, households, prisons, schools, clinics - and is
characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles,
relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can
investigate these site-specific complexities, providing
multi-dimensional and compelling analyses. Bringing together both
theoretical and practical material, this book shows researchers how
ethnography can be carried out within human service settings. It
provides an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic
creativeness and offers a more humanistic and context-sensitive
approach in the field of health and social care to generating valid
knowledge about today's service work.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. This book
explores how children's rights are practised and weighed against
birth and adoptive parents' rights and examines how governments and
professionals balance rights when it is decided that children
cannot return to parental care. From different socio-political and
legal contexts in Europe and the United States, it provides an
in-depth analysis of concepts of family, contact, the child's
best-interest principle and human rights when children are adopted
from care. Taking an international comparative approach to these
issues, this book provides detailed information on adoption
processes and shares learning from best practice and research
across country boundaries to help improve outcomes for all children
in care for whom adoption may be the placement of choice.
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 address an immensely important and pressing issue in
modern societies. Immigrants in the child welfare system are a
critical issue and they seem to face serious challenges that are
evident across countries. These are challenges related to lack of
language proficiency, lack of knowledge about cultural and social
aspects and about the public systems of the destination country.
Perhaps most relevantly, the challenges may include collisions of
ideas and beliefs about how to raise children, about children's
place in the family and society, and about children's rights.
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