Overview
- Focuses on social justice for children living in the South
- Highlights the importance of social policies that consider children as actors and protagonists
- Analyses the situations of vulnerability in which children live in different countries
Part of the book series: Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies (EBAPCS, volume 9)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Graciela Tonon
Graciela is a full professor of quality of life: theory and methodology and research methods in social sciences, director of the Research Center in Social Sciences (CICS-UP) at the School of Social Sciences of the Universidad de Palermo, Argentina. She is also full professor of community social work and children at risk and vulnerability, and director of the Social Institute of Social Sciences UNI-COM at the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Argentina. She obtained her doctoral degree in political science (USAL, Argentina) with postdoctoral studies at the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, and a master’s degree in political sciences (UMSAM, Argentina). She also has a bachelor's degree in Social Work. She has received the ISQOLS Distinguished Service Award for Substantial Contributing to a Better Understanding of Quality-of-Life Studies–2016. She is the editor of the International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Series, ISQOLS–Springer and the editor of the Book Review Section and member of the Policy Board of Applied Research in Quality of Life, ISQOLS–Springer. She is also the director of the Journal de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Palermo, Argentina; vice-president of publications (2019–2022) of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and secretary of the Human Development and Capability Association (2016–2022) and fellow (2014–2025). She is the author of 27 books in English and Spanish; she has written many scientific articles and book chapters and has given lectures at universities on five continents. She has also worked for 25 years as social worker with children living in conditions of abuse and poverty. She has recently been appointed as an instructor of the Child Indicator Certification Programme (ISQOLS-MIQOLS).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Justice for Children in the South
Editors: Graciela H. Tonon
Series Title: Evidence-Based Approaches to Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5045-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5044-5Published: 09 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5047-6Published: 10 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5045-2Published: 08 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-5651
Series E-ISSN: 2730-566X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 197
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Rights, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Quality of Life Research, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry