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Open AccessReconsidering the role of place in health and welfare services: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and Canada
Places—the meaningful locations of daily life—have been central to the wellbeing of humans since they first formed social groups, providing a stable base for individuals, families, and communities. In the Unit...
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Parental Suffering and Resilience Among Recently Displaced Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Parents are an essential source of constancy and support, and effectively promote children’s resilience even in adversity. To build on this potential, however, more information is needed about the realities of...
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“Family Is Everyone Who Comes Through the Doors of Our Home”: West African Concepts of Family Bridging the North-South Divide in the Diaspora
Some cultures, such as those belonging to the Global North, may place emphasis on individual well-being within the family system, while other cultures, such as those in the Global South, tend to view the famil...
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Geographies of Palestinian Children and Families: A Critical Review of the Research and a Future Research Agenda
While the field of children’s geographies continues to grow, the subfield of geographies of children affected by political violence is still in its formative stages. There is even less research using a geograp...
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Responding to Child Maltreatment: a Framework for Map** Child Protection Agencies
While there is a growing number of international population surveys about rates of child maltreatment there is much less data on legal, health and social services responses to maltreatment. Agency surveys are ...
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Palestinian Children Forging National Identity through the Social and Spatial Practices of Territoriality
This chapter explores the development of national identity for Palestinian children and their families through the lens of territoriality. It suggests that the development of national identity is a process to ...
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Castle and Cage: Meanings of Home for Palestinian Children and Families
Many children in Palestine live in an environment characterized by the constant threat of violence in their homes, schools, and neighborhood communities. It is within this context that an examination of the me...
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Arrested in Place: Palestinian Children and Families at the Border
Borders represent places and symbols of power (Donnan and Wilson, 2001), and they can be both physical/visible as well as mental/invisible. In other words, borders may have a physical presence in space, yet th...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Geographies of Palestinian Children and Families: A Critical Review of the Research and a Future Research Agenda
While the field of children’s geographies continues to grow, the subfield of geographies of children affected by political violence is still in its formative stages. There is even less research using a geograp...
