Children’s Rights in Times of Transition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Researching Vulnerabilities and Implementing Children’s Rights
5. Children’s Rights in Times of Transition 9
6. Reflections on Methodological Approaches and Challenges in Researching Children Born of War 25
7. Part II: Children & Youth in World War II and its Aftermath
8. Witnessing Children’s Lives under National Socialism: Oral Testimonies and Children’s Drawings from Ghettos and Concentration Camps 67
9. Reflecting on Janusz Korczak: On his Care for Jewish Orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto 91
10. Researching Global Phenomena in Local Circumstances: Polish Children Born of War in the Context of CBOW Research 115
11. Surviving the Holocaust: Children of Jewish Deportees in Post-war France (1940–1980) 139
12. “An echo of our parents”: Norway’s Legal Reckoning with Underage NS Collaborators 163
13. Part III: Critical Reflections on the German Discourse on ‘Children of the Occupation’
14. Black German ‘Occupation Children’ in the Focus of Anthropological Research: Continuities and Discontinuities 183
15. Problematised ‘Fatherlessness’: On the (Re)Production of a ‘Victim Narrative’ in ‘Occupation Children’ Research 209
16. Part IV: Learning from the Past: Dealing with Present Day Challenges
17. Liminal Children, Liminal Rights? Media Representations of Scandinavian Children Born of War after World War II and after the Fall of the Islamic State 233
18. The Evolution of Child Soldiers from ‘Villains to Victims’ in Law and Policy and its Significance for Children Born of War 265
19. School Transition Expectations of Newcomer Pupils in Germany: A Pilot Evaluation of a Summer Programme 295
20. Contributors 315