The Child In Latin America

Author : Marco Ramírez Rojas,Pilar Osorio Lora
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666916881

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Growing up in Latin America by Marco Ramírez Rojas,Pilar Osorio Lora Pdf

Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.

Author : Duncan Green
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022131655

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Hidden Lives by Duncan Green Pdf

Exploring the lives of the street children of Latin America through their own eyes and voices, Hidden Lives builds on the concept of children's rights enshrined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Through interviews with children across the continent, as well as teachers, welfare workers and other adults involved in their lives, Green argues forcefully that child participation is both a fight and a necessity if child-centered social programs are to succeed. More broadly, harnessing the energy of children could help the region tackle pressing environmental and social problems.

Author : Ernest J. Bartell,Alejandro O'Donnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children
ISBN : 0268160627

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The Child in Latin America by Ernest J. Bartell,Alejandro O'Donnell Pdf

Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America,Latin American Institute for Economic and Social Planning,UNICEF.
Publisher : [New York] : United Nations Children's Fund
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Children
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038668914

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Children and Youth in National Development in Latin America by United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America,Latin American Institute for Economic and Social Planning,UNICEF. Pdf

Author : Tobias Hecht
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299180331

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Minor Omissions by Tobias Hecht Pdf

Latin American history—the stuff of wars, elections, conquests, inventions, colonization, and all those other events and processes attributed to adults—has also been lived and partially forged by children. Taking a fresh look at Latin American and Caribbean society over the course of more than half a millennium, this book explores how the omission of children from the region's historiography may in fact be no small matter. Children currently make up one-third of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean, and over the centuries they have worked, played, worshipped, committed crimes, and fought and suffered in wars. Regarded as more promising converts to the Christian faith than adults, children were vital in European efforts to invent loyal subjects during the colonial era. In the contemporary economies of Latin America and the Caribbean—where 23 percent of people live on a dollar per day or less—the labor of children may spell the difference between survival and starvation for millions of households. Minor Omissions brings together scholars of history, anthropology, religion, and art history as well as a talented young author who has lived in the streets of a Brazilian city since the age of nine. The book closes with the prophetic dystopian tale "The Children's Rebellion" by the noted Uruguayan writer Cristina Peri Rossi.

Author : Maria Cristina Salazar,Walter Alarcon Glasinovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429871054

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Child Work and Education by Maria Cristina Salazar,Walter Alarcon Glasinovich Pdf

Published in 1998. In recent years research, as well as the results of practical programmes, has led to a clearer understanding of the relationship between child work and education. It is increasingly evident that child work is not entirely the result of economic need or exploitation. Frequently is the failure of educational system to offer adequate, stimulating and affordable schooling that encourages children to drop out in favour of work that appears to offer advantages more relevant to their everyday lives. Parents too may undervalue the role and purpose of a school that provides inadequate preparation for the future and often see a job, including home-based work, as a positive alternative to crime, delinquency or begging. Consequently, while a distinction needs to be made between ‘formative child work’ and ‘harmful child work’, in certain situations and cultures the phenomenon is not always seen as negative. Yet, although gratifying in the short term and sometimes even providing the means for a younger child to attend school as well as a way of learning discipline and responsibility, often these jobs provide no useful experience and do not lead to an improvement in the personal development of life chances of a child. The situation is therefore complex and requires a more realistic evolution of the relationship between archaic pedagogy, dropout rates and child work. These five case studies from Latin America all reveal the effects of inappropriate school curricular. Desertion of the educational system for the labour market leads to inadequate training and perpetuates the poverty trap. As part of the commitment to combating work which is detrimental to the child, major educational reform is needed. Improvements in coverage, quality and affordability should lead to greater acceptance pf schooling at all levels of society and provide a greater incentive for parents and children alike to participate more fully in the system. Moreover, in cases of severe economic hardship and forced or harmful labour, practical assistance with subsides and scholarships should be considered to remove children from such work.

Author : María Soledad Paz-MacKay,Omar Rodriguez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498597425

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Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema by María Soledad Paz-MacKay,Omar Rodriguez Pdf

Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema explores the trend of portraying children and adolescents in a subjective, adult-constructed point of view in Latin American cinema. This trend, in which the filmmakers are able to express their own anxieties while subordinating the child’s, draws new political implications to these constructions of children’s subjective character. Chapters in this volume touch on intersectional historic contexts, such as the Brazilian judicial system, Mexico’s youth protest, Venezuelan social crisis, the Southern Cone’s post-dictatorships, and race and gender issues in Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina to elucidate these implications and how they affect child agency. Contributors to this book argue for children’s increased agency in film and in society as they analyze films in which children have more active roles. These films mirror the shift toward filmmaking that emphasizes innovative narratives and aesthetic techniques that allow children to be portrayed as social commentators, rather than passive figures. Scholars of Latin American studies, film studies, history, sociology, race studies, and gender studies will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Amy Risley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351684132

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The Youngest Citizens by Amy Risley Pdf

The Youngest Citizens traces the historical evolution of children’s rights in Latin America before turning its focus to the dramatic shift in discourse and policy experienced by the continent in the last 20 years. This book explores the new global regime on childhood, child advocates’ sustained efforts to influence domestic policy, the ongoing challenges they face, and the implications for democracy and citizenship in Latin America. Risley addresses the disconnect between rights granted and the realities that young people face through in-depth case studies of child advocacy and legislation to prove that rights in theory do not suffice; the status of children must be improved in practice. Key issues are discussed, such as child labor in Bolivia and Brazil, child soldiers in Colombia, child sexual exploitation in Costa Rica and Mexico, and unaccompanied child migrants detained at the United States’ southern border. The Youngest Citizens takes the cautiously optimistic view that children themselves are increasingly being recognized as rights-bearing subjects and included in the decisions affecting them. This book is an essential text for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in Latin American studies, with a focus on themes surrounding childhood and the family, human rights, and migration.

Author : Philippa Page,Inela Selimovic,Camilla Sutherland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498574419

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The Feeling Child by Philippa Page,Inela Selimovic,Camilla Sutherland Pdf

The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film compiles a series of essays focusing on the figure of the child within the specific context of the “affective turn” in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America. This edited volume looks specifically at the intersection between cultural constructions of childhood and the affective turn within the contemporary sociopolitical landscape of Latin America. The editors and contributors share a common aim in furthering comprehension of the particular intensity of the child’s affective presence—spectatorial, haptic, silent, and spectral, among others—in contemporary Latin American cultural expression. The contributions herein approach this theoretical challenge through an interdisciplinary lens which brings together two burgeoning strands of inquiry. The first is the notion of childhood as a significant, and inherently political, sociocultural space; the second is the recognition that affect is integral and fundamental to gaining a more complex understanding of the manner in which contemporary social worlds are made. In each case, this affective presence is teased out as a register of society, shedding light on the issues marking out the current sociopolitical landscape—in particular the traces of the recent past—in the regions represented. This book brings together established international scholars and young academics focusing on Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Peru.

Author : José R. Molinas Vega,Ricardo Paes de Barros,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi,Marcelo Giugale,Louise J. Cord,Carola Pessino,Amer Hasan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389027

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Do Our Children Have a Chance? by José R. Molinas Vega,Ricardo Paes de Barros,Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi,Marcelo Giugale,Louise J. Cord,Carola Pessino,Amer Hasan Pdf

This volume reports on the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean by tracking equity in access to key services using newly-available data.

Author : Emilio García Méndez
Publisher : Incumbent
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8885401392

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Child Rights in Latin America from "irregular Situation" to Full Protection by Emilio García Méndez Pdf

Author : Deborah Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137528223

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The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema by Deborah Martin Pdf

What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film aesthetics. Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of the child in ‘street child’ films, the role of the child in post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the child’s figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the New Latin American Cinema.

Author : Victoria Leigh Derr,Yolanda Corona-caraveo,Yolanda Corona Caraveo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Children
ISBN : 0367463881

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Latin American Transnational Children and Youth by Victoria Leigh Derr,Yolanda Corona-caraveo,Yolanda Corona Caraveo Pdf

Latin American Transnational Children and Youth focuses on understanding young people's connection to nature and place within a transnational and Latin American context. It serves to diversify, elaborate, and sometimes challenge the assumptions made in researching people and place, and unearths the complexities of a world in which the identity of many is not shaped by a single place or culture, but instead by complex interactions among these. Spanning across ages and geographies, the book explores the central themes of sense of place, identity, and environmental action, with an emphasis on Latinx and Indigenous communities. This book balances theoretical questions with geographically contextual empirical research. Each section is situated in current interdisciplinary research and provides geographically specific examples of children and youth's perspectives on place relations, migration, transnationalism, and an emerging demographic of environmentalists. Contributors from Latin America and the United States advance the fields of childhood and youth studies, environmental psychology, geography, sociology, planning, and education. This book looks across the Americas, to see how young people experience their worlds and constructively contribute to their places and environments.

Author : Ondina E. González,Bianca Premo
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0826334415

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Raising an Empire by Ondina E. González,Bianca Premo Pdf

Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.

Author : María Eugenia Rausky,Mariana Chaves
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030009014

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Living and Working in Poverty in Latin America by María Eugenia Rausky,Mariana Chaves Pdf

This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society. Mechanisms of productions and reproduction of these relationships are identified through empirical research carried out in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba. This book centers on the experiences of individuals in those less favored social groups who may have suffered structural poverty for decades, or who may have been simply deprived of a basic income to cover their most essential needs.