This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children's rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region. The decade also saw the ratification of the International Convention on Rights of the Child and post-dictatorial processes of political and social democratisation. The editors of this book explore the tension this juxtaposition has generated between logics and processes of dissimilar orientations. Within this framework, chapters investigate the neoliberalisation and institutionalisation of children's rights and consider similarities and differences with respect to other regions. They also explore changes in schools and educational systems, as well as the phenomenon of the internal and external child and family migration.

Este libro pretende constituirse en un aporte significativo para la consolidacion del campo de estudios de infancia. Ofrece una vision actualizada de las lineas renovadas de investigacion sobre las politicas publicas dirigidas a la infancia en Argentina y Brasil desde una perspectiva historica, antropologica y sociologica. Y se propone analizar esta problematica, que ha adquirido un creciente interes en America Latina, desde un enfoque poco frecuentado, como es el de la puesta en relacion de los estudios realizados sobre la infancia, la familia y el Estado. En su conjunto, los capitulos abordan las politicas publicas para la infancia reconociendo el caracter esencialmente historico de los problemas y los procesos que tal cuestion encierra, prestando especial atencion a sus vinculaciones con las preocupaciones del presente. La propuesta supone una fuerte apuesta al dialogo interdisciplinario con la idea de enriquecer los enfoques teoricos y metodologicos, y valoriza los distintos contextos temporales y locales para analizar los saberes sobre la infancia y la intervencion estatal sobre los ninos.