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Children as research advisor contributions to a 'methodology of participation' in researching children in difficult circumstances
- Author:
- DONA Gina
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care, 2(2), September 2006, pp.22-34.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article contributes to emerging discussions of child participation in general, and in research with migrant and displaced children specifically, by examining the involvement of children as research advisors in two projects; a study of foster care separated children in Rwanda, and an analysis of the conditions of children outside parental care living in institutions and communities in Bangladesh. The comparison highlights the importance of conceiving participation as a research strategy, and advocates a 'methodology of participation' that considers varieties of participation and varieties of social change. Teaching research methods to children acting as advisors enabled them to understand what research is and to learn about the lives of other children, while contributing to decision-making process in selecting questions, participants, interpreting findings and making recommendations.
The Rwandan experience of fostering separated children
- Authors:
- DONA Giorgia, KALINGANIRE Charles, MURAMUTSA Felix
- Publisher:
- Save the Children Sweden
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 95p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Stockholm
Following the genocide and civil war in 1994, fostering has been encouraged by the government of Rwanda and by agencies as the preferred option for younger separated children unable to return to their own families. Although responsibility for the care of children is traditionally shared within the extended family and with close friends care by strangers has not been common. Approximately 1200 children have been fostered by agencies, but there is believed to be a much larger number of children spontaneously taken in by unrelated families. However little has so far been done to enquire into he circumstances of either group.