Essays about: "orphanages"

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  1. 1. The Politics of Adoption in Korea

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Mari Andersson; [2018]
    Keywords : international adoption; Korea; gender inequality; abandoned children; orphanages; Confucianism; unwed and single mothers; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the politics of adoption in Korea. A theoretical framework was adopted that address gender, culture, and power inequalities in a domestic and international context in order to understand why so many children have been given up to orphanages, and why international adoption has been and continues to be common in Korea. READ MORE

  3. 2. Growing up as Hybrid Plants A Multiple-Case Study on How Adoptive Parents Cope with the Chinese Origins of Their Adopted Children from China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Weixue Gao; [2018]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Transnational adoption is a type of adoption where the couple (or an individual) voluntarily become the permanent and legal parents of an adoptee from a different nation. Sweden has been actively participating the transnational adoption since the early 1970s, and from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, China had been one of the major donor countries for Sweden. READ MORE

  4. 3. Orphaned children´s school attendance in Kenya

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Andreas Wigren; [2016-09-16]
    Keywords : Human Capital; Education; Kenya; Orphans;

    Abstract : This paper aims to investigate how school attendance differs for orphan children living at orphanages and orphan children living in the family based care called “Kinship care” in Nairobi, Kenya. The data was retrieved through qualitative interviews with 55 orphan children in Nairobi during a five weeks period in April and May 2016. READ MORE

  5. 4. Silencing the Subaltern: A Postcolonial Critique of NGO-run Orphanages in Jinja, Uganda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Louisa De Wet; [2016]
    Keywords : Uganda; NGOs; orphanage; disempowerment; corruption; faith-based organisations; weak states; racism; white privilege; subaltern; postcolonialism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The large number of orphanages in Jinja, Uganda has promoted the widespread institutionalisation of children from poor families. Parents are left disempowered and have very few options but to sign over the rights of their children because NGOs in the region have largely prioritised orphanage care over other services. READ MORE

  6. 5. Towards a brighter future for institutionalised children? A case study of de-institutionalisation of childcare in Kyrgyzstan.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Anna-Lena Nordin; [2015]
    Keywords : child protection.; childcare system reform; alternative care; residential childcare; Institutional childcare; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Institutional care for children, so called orphanages, are still the most common type of alternative care for children deprived of parental care in Kyrgyzstan. The number of children who enter residential care in Kyrgyzstan has increased in recent years – this despite international attention of the need to move away from institutional childcare towards a range of family-based services. READ MORE