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Subject(s)

• Children—South Asia—Social conditions [Browse]
• Child welfare—South Asia [Browse]
• Children's rights—South Asia [Browse]
• Children and war—South Asia [Browse]

Editor

• D'Costa, Bina [Browse]

Summary note

"Explores the conceptualization of childhood in South Asia and comments on how discussions and debates have only recently shifted from a language of welfare to substantive protection of children's rights in the region"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: "turtles can fly" : vicarious terror and the child in South Asia / Bina D'Costa
• Shaping childhood in South Asia
• Children and civil society in south asia : subjects, participants, and political agents / Duncan McDuie-Ra
• "We will work harder to be our own boss" : children, vulnerability and structural violence / Elora Halim Chowdhury
• The kite runner : children, violence, and the ethnic imaginary in Afghanistan / Syed Sami Raza
• Conflict and violent peace
• Migration, mobilisation and memory : the Sri Lankan civil war in the lives of Tamil youth / Amarnath Amarasingam and Tanuja Thurairajah
• Politics of the orphans of war : 72 children's journey from the Chittagong hill tracts of Bangladesh to the suburbs of France / Kabita Chakma and Glen Hill
• Besieged childhood and broken dreams : failed promises of the state and Maoist movement in India / Swati Parashar
• Impacts of terrorism on children in Pakistan : a case study of displaced children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa / Zahid Shahab Ahmed
• Rights, needs and protections
• Children affected by political violence in India : human rights, politics and protection / Cecilia Jacobs
• Rethinking rights and needs : the everyday life of refugee children in the borderland / Kazi Fahmida Farzana
• Pinning down a paper tiger : some practice observations on the monitoring and reporting mechanism in Nepal and Asian contexts / Anita Knudsen and Michelle Godwin
• Reflections from human rights advocates in the region
• Being young in a time of conflict : Kashmiri youth and children : a reflection / Parvez Imroz
• The killing of youths in Sri Lanka : historical wrongs and the failure of the state / Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
• The impact of war and violence on young minds / Azra Nafees Yousafzai
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781107117242 ((hardback))
• 1107117240 ((hardback))

LCCN

2016002673

OCLC

946610328

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