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Bisimba, Helen K. (2011) Vulnerable within the vulnerable : protection of orphaned children heading households in Tanzania. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
The adoption and ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
1989 came as a promise to the improvement of children’s well-being and status
throughout the globe. The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the African
Child (ACRWC) sparked more hope for the African Child. A number of initiatives
by governments and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have been
undertaken to enforce the rights of the child; yet children continue to suffer from
various injustices.
In Tanzania orphaned children heading households (OCHH) suffer even more as
they struggle between adult and children roles. This thesis reveals a disconnection
between the perspectives of the OCHH and those of the different governance
institutions supposed to protect the children at the local, national and global levels.
In a socio-legal study this thesis uses ethnographic techniques to focus on the OCHH
themselves and their perspectives. It explores their understandings and the role
played by the multitude of governance institutions around them, which do not seem
to address the injustices facing them. The thesis uses governance, law and ethic of
care approaches to analyse the children’s position. It argues that although OCHH
suffer, they are not ‘suffering bodies’ instead they are ‘political persons’ claiming
their agency.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Tanzania, Orphans -- Tanzania, Child welfare -- Tanzania, Poor children -- Tanzania | ||||
Official Date: | November 2011 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | School of Law | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Stewart, Ann ; Paliwala, Abdul | ||||
Sponsors: | Ford Foundation ; Research on Poverty Alleviation (Tanzania) | ||||
Extent: | xxiii, 348 leaves | ||||
Language: | eng |
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