Irregularities in transnational adoptions and child appropriations: Challenges for reparation practices

Childhood ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 090756822110663
Author(s):  
Aranzazu Gallego Molinero ◽  
Chandra Kala Clemente-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Transnational Adoption ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Policies And Practices

Transnational adoption is a global movement of children across borders to new permanent and irreversible legal relationships. It is a circulation that involves social, economic, cultural and political relations marked by geographies of inequalities of power on a global scale. Many of these circulations have been shrouded by illicit practices which mean the violation of child rights. This special issue of the journal Childhood examines individual, social and political narratives on illicit processes surrounding this practice. Drawing from social and political sciences research, the contributors of this collection show the contradiction between ‘silences’ around certain practices in some societies, while in others ‘truth recovery’ has been central to the transition towards democracy. The authors raise concerns about policies and practices that complicate the interests and rights of individual actors.

scholarly journals Outdoor Recreation, Nature-Based Tourism, and Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia L. Winter ◽  
Steven Selin ◽  
Lee Cerveny ◽  
Kelly Bricker
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Tourism Service ◽  
Inclusive Governance

This Special Issue addresses the intersections of outdoor recreation, nature-based tourism, and sustainability. Outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism provide essential benefits to individuals, communities, and society and thereby contribute to sustainability. Equitable provision of opportunities, cultural variations in desired experiences, barriers to outdoor recreation, and diverse perceptions of both nature and recreation add to the complexity in outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism service delivery. Outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism occur within a socioecological system with feedback loops to changing social, economic, technological, and ecological conditions. On a global scale, climate change and other disturbance factors are impacting ecosystems and opportunities, increasing the importance of adaptation strategies for longer-term planning. Population growth and regional shifts in demographics and distribution (e.g., urbanization), as well as socioeconomic trends, affect who engages in outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism, opportunities sought, nature access, and governance of outdoor services. Overall the complexity of sustainable outdoor recreation and tourism may suggest a need for different approaches to service delivery, culture change among service providers and managers of natural spaces, and novel approaches to inclusive governance and shared stewardship. Given the clear importance of outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism to society, we invite you to consider this initial introduction to our assembled collection, which is meant to advance our understanding of the intersections of outdoor recreation, nature-based tourism, and sustainability.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Males of Color and School Counseling

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_part_4) ◽  
pp. 2156759X2110400
Author(s):  
James L. Moore ◽  
Erik M. Hines ◽  
Paul C. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
School Counseling ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
The Social

The sense of urgency for addressing the concerns of males of color cannot be overstated. The reality of racial discrimination and trauma is present for males of color in urban, suburban, and rural settings and regardless of their socioeconomic status. Such oppressive conditions in education, criminal justice, health, and employment, for example, wreak havoc on their overall well-being and advancement in society. Until the systems constraining the progress of males of color are addressed through substantive policy and practice, the social, economic, and educational struggles will persist. This special issue presents 19 theoretical, qualitative, and quantitative articles focusing specifically on the experiences of males of color in educational settings and the importance of school counselors in helping them to thrive.

The 3P model for creating sustainable educational reform: an epilogue to the special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 571-584
Author(s):  
Thomas Peter Gumpel ◽  
Judah Koller ◽  
Naomi Weintraub ◽  
Shirli Werner ◽  
Vered Wiesenthal
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Inclusive Policy ◽  
3P Model

PurposeThis article presents a conceptual synthesis of the international literature on inclusive education while expanding upon, and incorporating, the articles in this special issue. The authors present their 3P model (philosophy, policy and praxis) and relate each paper in this special issue to different aspects of their model.Design/methodology/approachThis article serves as an epilogue to this special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration as well as a discussion of historical and conceptual distinctions between mainstreaming and inclusion while examining global trends in understanding the move toward inclusive education.FindingsThe authors examined the detrimental effects of ableism and a medical model of disability and their effects on the educational system. They conducted an analysis based on examining the philosophy, policy and practice of the inclusive movement, specifically by examining conceptual models and inclusive decisions, conceptual frameworks for describing inclusive policy and a focus of the application to educational administration. The authors examined the global movement from segregation/exclusion to integration and then to inclusionary praxis.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors maintain that the inclusion literature lacks a sound positivistic empirical base, and so they present throughout the article possible avenues for such research as well as future directions for comparative research.Practical implicationsUnderstanding the philosophical underpinnings of the inclusive movement is central to developing viable inclusive educational settings. The authors distinguish between inclusive schools and local educational authorities where stakeholders have moved toward an inclusionary system (the minority) versus locales who are reluctant to move systems to actual change.Originality/valueThis article takes a wider view of inclusionary practices, from one focusing on children with disabilities to one focusing on historical and traditional exclusionary practices. By widening the scope of the inclusion discussion, to one of exclusion, the authors present a viably wider lens to educational administration.

A Special issue to encourage full application of child rights in child protection

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 104683
Author(s):  
Jaap Doek ◽  
Stuart Hart ◽  
Yanghee Lee
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Child Rights

Special Issue on Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-223
Author(s):  
Fumio Yamazaki ◽  
Carlos Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Tsunami Disaster

Natural disasters are major threats worldwide, with earthquakes and tsunamis presenting major obstacles to sustainable development, especially in Asia-Pacific countries. Natural hazards must be understood and social resilience improved to reduce the risks of disaster. Because earthquakes and tsunamis are rare but devastating events, data must be collected on a global scale, making international collaboration is inevitable for reducing loss due to these events. A new international research program called the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) started in 2008 jointly sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Our proposal, entitled Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru, was designated as one of the projects in the field of natural disaster prevention in April 2009. Since this project officially started in March 2010, the research program has been promoted by five groups – seismic motion and geotechnical, tsunami, buildings, spatial information database and damage assessment, and disaster mitigation planning – through the strong collaboration of Peruvian and Japanese researchers and stakeholders. Midway through the project, we decided to publish our research results in the form of English technical papers so that a wide and global range of researchers and practitioners could take advantage of our findings. This special issue of the Journal of Disaster Research contains 15 articles – an overview of the project and its progress and 14 peer-reviewed papers covering aspects ranging from earthquake and tsunami hazards to risk reduction. We extend our sincere thanks to all of the contributors and reviewers involved with these articles. We would further deeply appreciate feedback from readers on these papers to prepare for a second special JDR volume on this project within the next two years.

Introduction to Special Issue: Human Trafficking

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Winterdyk ◽  
Philip Reichel
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Major Project

This special issue focuses on a crime that has been classified by the United Nations as the third most profitable crime in the world — human trafficking (Fichtelberg 2008). 1 The international contributions in this issue cover a range of key social, economic, political and legal issues as they relate to human trafficking. The genesis for this collection evolved out of a major project led by Philip Reichel which was completed in 2007. Reichel and an international team examined Canadian and US practices of combating human trafficking. In addition, the project explored a range of initiatives used in Europe and proposed by the United Nations.2 Before presenting an overview of the articles, we thought it instructive to provide a synopsis of some of the fundamental issues involved in human trafficking. Our thinking was that a brief discussion of these more general, descriptive, theoretical and practical issues would provide some context for readers unfamiliar with the subject of human trafficking.

Assessing ‘Institutional Thickness’ in the Local Context: A Comparison of Cardiff and Sheffield

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 975-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Raco
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Institutional Relations

Urban managers have been faced by growing problems in recent decades. Social and economic inequalities within cities have steadily grown, whereas shifting global economic relations have led to the polarisation of more and less successful local (urban) economies. At the same time many nation-states, such as Britain, have opted for greater deregulation and a resurgence of neoliberal strategies of governance, which have had the effect of disempowering local communities and managers just at the time when they would appear to be most vulnerable to the forces of change. In this context a range of authors have argued that the way forward for city authorities is through developing an institutionally based set of local networks and alliances in which a range of interests are represented politically and through which wider global economic forces can be better ‘held down’ at the local level. This ‘institutional thickness’ varies from city to city and this paper, in comparing Cardiff and Sheffield as two case studies, addresses the ways in which institutional relations have developed in those cities and the degree to which they represent effective forms of inclusive local political mobilisation and wider economic leverage. I argue that processes of ‘institutional thickness’ in cities does not necessarily create inclusive forms of local political representation and that institutional presence and interaction and the local policymaking processes they are part of, may in fact reinforce existing local social, economic, and political relations and divisions rather than leading to the encouragement of local corporatist relations.

scholarly journals Editorial: Rurality, Modernity and National Identity between the Wars

Rural History ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEREMY BURCHARDT
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Plenary Session ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural History ◽  
Almost Everywhere

The articles in this special issue ofRural Historyaddress aspects of the multifaceted and often very intense relationship between rurality, modernity and national identity in the 1920s and 1930s. They derive from a conference organised in January 2007 by the Interwar Rural History Research Group. The conference, ‘Rethinking the Rural: Land and Nation in the 1920s and 1930s’ brought together forty-nine papers on fifteen different countries and concluded with a plenary session in which it became clear that there were some striking commonalities to the interwar experiences of the countries in question. In particular, the three-way relationship between the countryside, modernisation and national identity seemed to be prominent almost everywhere. Bound up with these was the rise of international trade and its close corollary, the agricultural depression, which affected rural areas on a literally global scale. While there were also some intriguing and unexpected differences between countries, the broad context seemed to be similar enough that it would be fruitful to collect those papers that related most closely to these core themes and publish them together. In this editorial, I will briefly outline the articles that follow, pick out what seem to me the most interesting connections, and then consider some of the wider questions this raises.

scholarly journals Seeing (With, Through, and As) Monsters—An Introduction to the Special Issue

Nordlit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Beyer ◽  
Juliane C. Bockwoldt ◽  
Emil Lundedal Hammar ◽  
Holger Pötzsch
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Nuclear Threat ◽  
The Real ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Civil Societies

We believe that the representation, construction, manufacture, and exclusion of monsters across genres and media is an increasingly pressing issue for individuals and civil societies on a global scale. The widespread use of exaggerated frames presenting a variety of others as mere threats has deadly consequences for many people—worldwide. And, ‘Western’ liberal democratic elites urgently need to acknowledge their own role in such processes as the current construction of ‘Monster Assad’ as a Hitler-esque tyrant intending to ‘gas his own people’ or the continuing framing of Iran as ‘a nuclear threat to world peace’ lead by ‘nuke-building, apocalyptic mullahs’ are equally irresponsible and dangerous acts as the presentation of ‘non-normative’ persons as a menace to cultural and societal stability or the assumption that certain people are simply born as terrorists. We believe that as researchers, students, employees, workers, pupils, retirees, and others—in sum: as citizens—, we must be aware of such discursive moves of othering and exclusion and learn to identify these, connect them to underlying interests, and then resist and subvert them to avoid more killings in our or others’ names. This is our responsibility especially as contemporary global crises intensify bringing with them the need for ever new scapegoats to explain away the real contradictions underlying these relentless challenges.

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