When should children not be involved in child protection-related processes? Child welfare workers' views from Norway and the USA (California)
Katrin Kriz
Emmanuel College Boston
Katrin Križ is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College in Boston. Her research interests lie in the areas of child welfare and poverty alleviation. Most of her research is comparative/international. She has always been intrigued by the question how states interact with disadvantaged populations in law, policy and practice. She has recently co-edited a book, Child welfare systems and migrant children (Oxford University Press, 2015) and is currently working on a book manuscript on children's participation in child protection processes (with Marit Skivenes). She has also published on education for the children of immigrant migrant farm workers in the United States and the impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the lives of low-income families in the United States.
Marit Skivenes
University of Bergen
Professor Marit Skivenes has a PhD in political science at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway. Skivenes is the PI of several international research projects on child protection systems, including Norway, Finland, England and the U.S., and recently received a Consolidator grant from the European Research Council. Skivenes has written numerous scientific works on child protection decision-making, children's rights, migrant children, and child welfare systems and broader welfare issues, as well as the impact of communication and publicity in theory and practice. Her work has been published in the Journal of Children´s Rights; Child and Family Social Work; Human Relations; International Social work; Acta Sociologica, to mention some. She has published two books on whistle blowing, and co-edited three books with Oxford University Press with a comparative focus on child welfare systems (2011); child welfare and migrants (2015), and; the role of courts in child protection decision-making (2016).
Abstract
This article contributes to the growing body of cross-country research on how public child welfare systems approach the empowerment of children in child protection-related processes. Our study, which draws on in-depth... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Katrin Kriz (Emmanuel College Boston)
- Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen)
Topic Area
Voice of the Child
Session
Oral13 » Session I-Voice of the Child (11:00 - Tuesday, 3rd October, Africa Room)
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