SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CHILDREN
AND YOUTH (SSCY/SSCH) VOLUME 27
BRINGING CHILDREN
BACK INTO THE FAMILY:
RELATIONALITY,
CONNECTEDNESS AND
HOME
EDITED BY
SAM FRANKEL
Kings University College at Western University, Canada
SALLY MCNAMEE
Kings University College at Western University,
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To our children: Kate, David, Laura, Ruari, Rosie, Maria and Elsie.
CONTENTS
Sam Frankel and Sally McNamee
Julie Seymour
Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Ruth Evans with Guo Yu and Fatou Kb
Deirdre Horgan, Shirley Martin and Catherine Forde
Vita Yakovlyeva
Mackenzie Mountford
Jana Mikats
Yan Zhu
Ana Vergara, Mauricio Seplveda and Irene Salvo
Olayinka Akanle and Ewajesu Opeyemi Okewumi
Bree Akesson and Omri Grinberg
Michelle Janning
Hansel Alejandro Aguilar Avila
Cibele Noronha de Carvalho and Maria Alice Nogueira
Tamanna Maqbool Shah
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Olayinka Akanle, PhD, is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of The Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a Research Associate of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests cover Childhood and Gender Studies, Family in post-colonial Africa, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Sociology of Development and Social Theory.
Bree Akesson is an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier Universitys Faculty of Social Work in Canada. Her research focusses on the impact of war on children and families, and she is currently exploring the biopsychosocial impact of war-related home demolitions on families and communities.
Hansel Alejandro Aguilar Avila is originally from Honduras and has served as an unaccompanied immigrant minors case manager, where he developed his interest for the subject matter. He earned his BA from Rutgers, the State University of NJ, in Sociology and Criminal Justice, and his MA in Sociology from George Mason University, where he is currently a PhD candidate focussing on the intersection of transnationalism, crime and human rights.
Ruth Evans, University of Reading, UK, led Death in the family in urban Senegal research project (funded by The Leverhulme Trust). She has published widely on care and family relations in Africa and the UK, including Interpreting family struggles in West Africa across Majority-Minority world boundaries (Gender, Place & Culture, 2019).
Dr Catherine Forde is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork. She teaches children and young peoples rights and participation on undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. Her main publication interests are community development; statecivil society relations and children and young peoples participation. She is a Co-author of the book Social Work and Community Development: A Critical Practice Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Sam Frankel is an Associate Professor at Kings University College at Western University Canada and is a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (with previous associations at the University of Central Lancashire and Sheffield University, UK). He is passionate about breaking down barriers between theory and practice reflected in recent publications, including Giving Children a Voice (2018), Negotiating Childhoods (2017) and a recent co-edited collection Contextualizing Childhoods (2018), as well as through involvement in childrens voice organisations EquippingKids (UK) and EquippingKids Canada.
Omri Grinberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University (Jonathan Shapiro Fund) and at the Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2019, he completed his PhD (Anthropology and Jewish Studies) at the University of Toronto, with a dissertation titled Writing Rights, Writing Violence: The Bureaucracy of Palestinian Testimonies in Israeli NGOs.
Dr Deirdre Horgan is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork. Her research interests include child welfare and protection, children and young peoples participation, childrens research methods and child migration. She has conducted a number of funded research projects using child participatory methods as well as reporting on Irish government consultations with children on a range of policy issues. She is Co-investigator on a Horizon 2020 project IMMERSE on the socio-educational integration of migrant children in Europe.
Michelle Janning is a Professor of Sociology and the Raymond and Elsie DeBurgh Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Her interdisciplinary research, teaching and public speaking engagements focus on the intersections of family life and material culture. Her recent books include The stuff of family life: How our homes reflect our lives (2017) and Love letters: Saving romance in the digital age (2018).
Fatou Kb is a Sociologist with a Diplme dEtudes Approfondies (DEA) from the University Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal. She is a researcher working in the fields of poverty, young peoples sexuality, access to health, food security, child nutrition, and social transfers, and is currently working on an interventionist research project on maternal and infant health funded by CRDI.
