Childhood in South Asia : a critical look at issues, policies, and programs

• Other Authors: Pattnaik, Jyotsna (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2004.
• Series: Research in global child advocacy.
• Subjects: Children > South Asia > Social conditions.; Children > Services for > South Asia.; Child welfare > South Asia.; Social Science > Children's Studies.; Age groups: children.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918116762
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-762-6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) : illustrations

The book has drawn an interdisciplinary pool of authors, some of whom are natives of South Asian countries and others who have been involved extensively in the region through their affiliations with various international organizations. The book represents children's issues in six South Asian co...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: rethinking children and childhood in South Asia / Jyotsna Pattnaik
• Caught between a crocodile and a snake : childhood in a Rohingya refugee camp, Bangladesh / Thomas Feeny
• Understanding childhood disability in India / Neerja Sharma
• Mad dogs and traffic jams : the psychosocial concerns of children in Kabul, Afghanistan / Jo de Berry
• Reaching the unreached : early childhood care and education interventions in India / Vrinda Datta
• Sri Lankan child's optimal growth and development : early care in exceptional circumstances / Indranie Dharmadasa and Vinitha Wickramaratne
• Ensuring infant and maternal health in India : toward convergence of family care with formal health care / Rajalakshmi Sriram
• A critical examination of the status of the female child in Pakistan / Shaireen Rasheed
• Children : broken promises and silent casualties of conflict in Nepal / Tara Niraula
• Repositioning South Asia's children within the competing discourses on childhood : implications for policy / Jyotsna Pattnaik.