Read more
Informationen zum Autor Shang Xiaoyuan is associate professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, the University of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2003, she was awarded the Alice Tay Human Rights Award by the Australia-China Council for her significant contribution to improving the understanding of child rights in China. Karen R. Fisher is associate professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of NewSouth Wales, Sydney. Dr. Fisher specializes in disability policy and Chinese social policy research. Klappentext International media regularly features horrific stories about Chinese orphanages, especially when debating international adoption and human rights. Much of the popular information is dated and ill-informed about the experiences of most orphans in China today, Chinese government policy, and improvements evident in parts of China. Informal kinship care is the most common support for the orphaned children. The state supports orphans and abandoned children whose parents and relatives cannot be found or contacted.The book explores concrete examples about the changing experiences and future directions of Chinese child welfare policy. It is about the support to disadvantaged children, including abandoned children in the care of the state, most of whom have disabilities; HIV affected children; and orphans in kinship care. It identifies how many orphans are in China, how they are supported, the extent to which their rights are met, and what efforts are made to improve their rights and welfare provision. When our research about Chinese orphans started in 2001, these children were almost entirely voiceless. Since then, the Chinese government has committed to improving child welfare. We argue that a mixed welfare system, in which state provision supplements family and community care, is an effective direction to improve support for orphaned children. Government needs to take responsibility to guarantee orphans' rights as children, and support family networks to provide care so that children can grow up in their own communities. The book contributes to academic and policy understanding of the steps that have been taken and are still required to achieve the goal of a child welfare system in China that meets the rights of orphans to live and thrive with other children in a family. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Changing care for orphansPart I: Alternative care and the Chinese welfare stateChapter 2: Alternative care theory and practiceChapter 3: Research methods and sitesChapter 4: Welfare system in ChinaChapter 5: Alternative care in ChinaPart II: Case studies of alternative care in ChinaChapter 6: National census profile of Chinese orphansChapter 7: State child welfare institutionsChapter 8: De-institutionalization of state alternative careChapter 9: Kinship care in rural ChinaChapter 10: Kinship care in urbanizing rural communitiesChapter 11: Caring for orphans in a rural migrant worker areaChapter 12: Kinship care in an Autonomous RegionChapter 13: Foster mother villagesChapter 14: Non-government children's welfare institutionsChapter 15: Supporting children affected by HIVPart III: Future directions for alternative care in ChinaChapter 16: Implications for alternative care of orphans in ChinaAppendix: Fieldwork details...
