Description
Book SynopsisThis handbook makes a major contribution to the growing international research and policy interest in children’s experienced well-being or quality of life in childhood, linking it to ongoing research on children’s risk and vulnerability. The editors and contributors adopt the broader concept of ‘risk’ in addition to ‘vulnerability’. Not much work considers the connections between risks that children experience and their quality of life. In examining children’s quality of life, the chapters discuss various issues of risk and vulnerability that may affect their lives and also how the quality of childhood might be enhanced and maintained even in the face of these factors. The chapters discuss experiences of violence and abuse; access to basic services such as housing, health and education; and children’s vulnerability due to broader external factors such as war, conflict, and environmental events. The volume also includes the impacts of new technologies on children and the consequent risks and vulnerabilities they may face, alongside the benefits.
This important volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives from established experts and emerging scholars in these fields of work. It covers a wide range of geographical and cultural contexts, and includes theoretical, empirical, policy and practice-based contributions. This handbook is a natural first point of reference for academics and policy professionals interested in quality of life, well-being, and children's rights.
Trade Review“The handbook on children’s risk, vulnerability, and quality of life presents a detailed empirical compilation from regions including South America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Oceania, describing and analysing the perspectives that children hold of these concepts. … the need for state and regional policies that investigate, incorporate, and facilitate the participation of children in their communities to improve their quality of life is reiterated.” (Aquiles Pérez Delgado, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 18 (6), 2023)
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
Gwyther Rees, Denise Benatuil, Maggie Lau and Habib Tiliouine
Part 1: Concepts of risk, vulnerability and quality of life.
1. Adversity and child well-being: A review of recent research.
Liliana Fernandes
2. The contribution of comparative qualitative research for understanding vulnerability in childhood.
Tobia Fattore, Susann Fegter, Christine Hunner-Kreisel
3. Ideological constructions of childhood: Considerations for children’s subjective well-being.
Shazly Savahl, Andy Dawes, Tobia Fattore, Sabirah Adams, Stef Slembrouk & Charles Malcolm
4. Participation as a protective resource for social exclusion: a comparison between countries.
Gemma Crous, Ferran Casas; Mònica González-Carrasco
5. “We also have rights, you know?”: Thinking about the implementation of the Rights of the Child in Portugal.
Maria João Leote de Carvalho and Catarina Tomás
Part 2: Children’s perspectives of violence and safety in different countries.
6. An overview of research on safety and subjective well-being.
Gwyther Rees
7. Security and well-being of children living in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Denise Benatuil
8. Children's perspectives on safety: the case of Greece.
Zoi Nikiforidou and Antoanneta Potsi
9. Violence against children, poverty and quality of life in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rachel Harvey and Enrique Delamonica
10. Perceptions of safety and subjective well-being of Brazilian children.
Jorge Castellá Sarriera, Lívia Maria Bedin and Miriam Raquel Wachholz Strelh
11. Negotiating safe spaces: Children’s discursive constructions of safety in a context of violence.
Sabirah Adams, Shazly Savahl, Elizabeth Benninger and Kyle Jackson
12. About the fear of the other: contributions to think children´s safety from a philosophical-political overview.
Damián Molgaray
13. Children’s appropriation of place and space: local citizenship, the right to the city and children’s perspectives on urban living.
Manuel Jacinto Sarmento, Gabriela Trevisan
14. A child standpoint on issues of safety in public places in diverse urban localities in Eastern Australia.
Sharon Bessell & Jan Mason
15. Socio-demographic characteristics, personal safety and subjective well-being of Hong Kong Children.
Maggie Lau
Part 3: Peer relationships for children’s feelings of safety and quality of life.
16. Influence of vulnerability in friendship and economic hardship on self-perceived safety and well-being among Bangladeshi children.
Haridhan Goswami, M. Ibrahim Khalil, and Bijoy Krishna Banik
17. Offline and online peer violence: Significance for child well-being in Southeastern Europe.
Lucija Vejmelka, Linda Rajhvajn Bulat, Nika Sušac
18. Understanding bullying cases in Indonesia and how to stop bullying.
Ihsana Sabriani Borualogo
19. Cyberbullying as a new form of aggression: a theoretical revision and implications for adolescent well-being.
Jorge Varela & Marc A. Zimmerman
20. What stops a good life for children? Bullying: An exploration of bullying, poverty and gender.
Larissa Pople
21. Victimization by peers and well-being of students: A study in North-Western Romania.
Sergiu Bălţătescu
Part 4: The quality of life of children in vulnerable contexts.
22. Children, political geographies and bare life: the case of Egypt.
Heba Ezzat
23. Thinking Subjective Wellbeing of Children in the Vulnerable Context of Seasonal Migrant Workers in Turkey.
Pınar Uyan Semerci & Emre Erdoğan
24. Refugee children’s understandings of safety and violence.
Lydia Ntokou & Antoanneta Potsi
25. Children in occupied Palestine: challenges to child well-being in Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank.
Samah Jabr & Elizabeth Berger
26. Mental health and wellbeing of overseas children and young people living in Malta.
Carmel Cefai & Natalie Haber
27. Psychological and subjective well-being of adolescents and youth affected by conflict in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Cirenia Chavez
28. Understanding factors challenging children’s well being in Algeria.
Habib Tiliouine
Part 5: Interventions and practice.
29. Programs to promote children's wellbeing: from data to practice.
Paulo Dias & Irene Cadime
30. Housing, health, education and the impact of ICT on the welfare of children in Albania.
Robert Gjedia & Migena Kapllanaj
31. Children’s standpoint on vulnerability: Implications for social work practice with children and young people.
Gabriele Drake, Michael Edenborough, Janet Falloon, Toby Fattore, Rhea Felton, Jan Mason, Lise Mogensen
32. Parenting Priorities: Improving our understanding of neglect during adolescence.
Phil Raws
33. Specificities of the subjective quality of life of children in child welfare.
Emmanuelle Toussaint, Philippe Guimard, Agnès Florin
34. A quality of life perspective on vulnerability: The case of adolescents in Flemish youth care.
Chris Swerts, Fien van Wolvelaer, Didier Reynaert, Jessica De Maeyer
35. Risks, vulnerability and children’s quality of life in the digital space.
Gwyther Rees (and colleagues)
36. Summary and discussion.
Gwyther Rees, Denise Benatuil, Maggie Lau and Habib Tiliouine
