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  • Elizabeth Detention Center

    A Social History of Immigration Detention in New Jersey and the United States

    by Ulla D. Berg, Carolina Sánchez Boe, Amy Gottlieb, Elizabeth Llorente, Penny Venetis, Fauziya Kassindja, Layli Miller Bashir, Will Coley0, Carolina Sanchez Boe2, Sarah Tosh3, Abdulai Bah4, Marguerite É Marty5, William Westerman6, Seth Kaper-Dale7, Edafe Okporo8, Kristyn Scorsone9, Pina N. Cirillo0, Kathy O'Leary1, Katherine M. Sastre2, Deirdre Conlon3, Nancy Hiemstra4, Julio Oseguera5, K. Sebastian León6, Xiomara Flores7, Mary Rizzo8, Whitney Strub9, Jessica Rofé0, Gloria d'Alessio1, Gabriela Viera2, Silky Shah3 ...
    The United States detains and deports several hundred thousand migrants every year. Many spend significant amounts of time in immigration detention as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. The Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey is located in a converted warehouse, managed by a private, for-profit prison company. Over three decades, migrants and asylum seekers have been brought ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Lost Children of Wilder

    The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (National Book Award Finalist)

    by Nina Bernstein ...
    In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. Lowry’s contention was that the system failed the children it was meant to help because it placed them according to creed and convenience, not according to need. The plaintiff was thirteen-year ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • I Miss Mummy

    The true story of a frightened young girl who is desperate to go home

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother.Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice's mother snatches her from her parents' house and disappears.Cathy ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Punished

    A mother’s cruelty. A daughter’s survival. A secret that couldn’t be told.

    by Vanessa Steel ...
    ‘Punished’ is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl, Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the hands of her sadistic mother. Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she discovered a secret that ultimately saved her life.From the age of 3, Vanessa lived in daily terror of her mother's unpredictable rage. If she was 'naughty', her mother would lash out at her – with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Researching Resilience

    Edited by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar ...
    While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods from the study of disorder to the study of well-being.This collection assembles qualitative and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Young Children's Rights

    Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice Second Edition

    by Priscilla Alderson ...
    Series series Children in Charge
    Published in association with Save the ChildrenPriscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children, from birth to eight years of age. The question of finding a balance between young children's rights to protection, to provision (resources and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Children and Borders

    Edited by S. Spyrou, M. Christou ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Youth
    This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Research and Practice in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

    by Cory Shulman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines infant and early childhood mental health and the importance of early emotional and social development for later developmental trajectories. It incorporates research and clinical perspectives and brings research findings to bear in evaluating intervention strategies. By incorporating empirical developmental literature that is directly relevant to infant mental health and clinical ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Child and Youth Migration

    Mobility-in-Migration in an Era of Globalization

    Edited by A. Veale, G. Donà ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection captures the intersection between migration, mobility and childhood studies. Contributors explore under-researched child and youth short-term and micro movements within major migration fluxes that occur in response to migration and global change. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Primary Well-Being: Case Studies for the Growing Child

    by Deborah Kramer ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book offers solutions on how to enhance the normal development of the well child incorporating complementary medicine. The primary care provider is the only healthcare professional to see every child (0-18) and their parent, and can assess the child’s health and advise parents on how to provide a healthy environment and important practices to nurture healthy children.The book provides ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Behind from the Start

    How America's War on the Poor is Harming Our Most Vulnerable Children

    by Lenette Azzi-Lessing ...
    Today there are nearly six million children under the age of five living in poverty in the world's richest country. Blanket statements are often tossed around in the political arena, public debate sphere, and progressive rhetoric. But the statistic remains intangible for many Americans, likely because the root causes, effects, and implications are multifaceted and complex, and are often hard to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD