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While many scholars and activists from multiple disciplines have reported on various aspects of orphan policy and the international adoption industry, there has been little synthesis of this information and its implications for global child protection. This chapter asserts that the misidentification of “orphans” as a category for development and humanitarian intervention has subsequently been misappropriated by many Western individuals and charitable organizations. Promoting a discourse of orphan rescue, they foster the growth of an “orphan industrial complex.” In developing countries…
In an effort to understand the situation of unaccompanied minors crossing the Unites States border and the exponential rise in the flight of children from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala which began in 2012, the International Rescue Committee has published this report from a field visit to Texas and Arizona. The report finds that messages from the Obama Administration and members of Congress has misled many to believe the situation to be a “border crisis” precipitated by “illegal immigration,” despite mounting evidence that the majority of the young children crossing the border might well…
In 2013 The Better Care Network and Save the Children UK began an inter-agency initiative to review and share existing knowledge on international volunteerism as related to the alternative care of children in developing countries. This initiative brings together key actors from across the child protection, education, corporate, faith-based and tourism sectors to share their respective experiences and identify global communication and engagement strategies to address the issue.
The purpose of this study was not to conduct formal academic research on the topic of volunteering in…