PROTECTING CHILDREN, CREATING CITIZENS
Participatory Child Protection Practice in Norway and the United States
Katrin Križ
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Contents
List of figures and tables
About the author
Acknowledgements
1Introduction
2Children’s participation as contested practice
3Non-participation triggers
4Participation triggers
5Doing participation
6Youth citizens
7Protecting children, creating citizens
Appendix 1Research methods:
Appendix 2Discussion questions:
Notes
References
Index
Figures
2.1Barriers to children’s participation
3.1Non-participation triggers
Tables
1.1Topics and research questions
1.2Legal, policy and organizational frameworks
3.1Themes by frequency in total sample (n=67)
4.1Case contexts leading to participation, by frequency (n=64)
4.2Participation triggers, by frequency (total n=67)
5.1Participatory approaches by frequency in total sample (n=68)
A.1Code descriptions for Chapter 3
A.2Code descriptions for Chapter 4
A.3Code descriptions for Chapters 5 and 6
Katrin Križ is Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston, US. She earned a PhD in sociology at Brandeis University and a master’s degree in international development and social change at Clark University. Her research interests lie in the areas of child welfare, the education of the children of migrant farm workers, and poverty. She has published on child welfare systems from a comparative perspective and on education for the children of immigrant migrant farm workers in the US. She is currently working on several research projects: an interview-based study of how employed undergraduate students in the US balance work with full time studies with Dr Janese Free, Emmanuel College; an interview-based study of the educational experiences of migrant children in the US with Dr Free; an edited volume on children’s participation from an international perspective with Dr Mimi Petersen, Copenhagen College, and a large-scale comparative project on professional discretion in decision-making in child protection with Dr Marit Skivenes and colleagues from several other countries at the Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen, Norway.
I would like to thank the following individuals for their emotional, intellectual, and/or practical support during the years it took to bring this project to life:
Mark Ahern, Katrina Bergeon, Kathryn Edin, Janese Free, Rose De Luca, Emma Frushell, Jenna Gaudette, Susan Bahia Jensen, Christa Kelleher, Joyce De Leo, William Leonard, Hans Križ, Marianne Križ, Bettina Križ and Oliver Križ, Gunda Križ and Nikolaus Križ, Neeva Križ Manandhar, Kaitlyn Moore, Noor Mughrabi, Katherine Parisi, Tarja Pösö, Brendan Quinn, Murat Recevik, Dakota Roundtree-Swain, Elspeth Slayter, Marit Skivenes, Sr Mary Johnson, SND, Inku Subedi, Lisa Stepanski and the members of the Todd Pond Book Club.
I owe great thanks to the study participants in California and Norway. Without their generosity and willingness to share their experiences this book would not have come into being. Thank you!
I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers who reviewed the book proposal and final draft manuscript. I am deeply grateful for their thoughtful and constructive comments.
I am thankful to Emmanuel College for providing me with sabbatical and research funding. I would also like to thank the Norwegian Research Council for funding the project CHILDPRO, which allowed me to spend a considerable amount of time on this project. The Norwegian Research Council Leiv Eiriksson Mobility Fellowship made it possible to work with Dr Skivenes in Norway to work on an early data analysis for this project.