Table Of ContentInternational Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
Series Editor: Graciela Tonon
Habib Tiliouine
Denise Benatuil
Maggie K. W. Lau Editors
Handbook
of Children’s Risk,
Vulnerability and
Quality of Life
Global Perspectives
International Handbooks
of Quality-of-Life
SeriesEditor
GracielaTonon,UniversidadNacionaldeLomasdeZamoraandUniversidad
dePalermo,CiudadAutonomadeBuenosAires,BuenosAires,Argentina
EditorialBoardMembers
AlexMichalos,UniversityofNorthernBritishColumbia,PrinceGeorge,BC,
Canada
RhondaPhillips,PurudeUniversity,WestLafayette,IN,USA
DonRahtz,CollegeofWilliam&Mary,Williamsburg,USA
DaveWebb,UniversityofWesternAustralia,Perth,WA,Australia
WolfgangGlatzer,GoetheUniversity,FrankfurtamMain,Hessen,Germany
DongJinLee,YonseiUniversity,Seoul,Korea(Republicof)
LauraCamfield,UniversityofEastAnglia,Norwich,UK
This handbook series offers extensive bibliographic resources and presents
current issues and topics from different disciplines and areas of study in
relationtoqualityoflife.ItispublishedinassociationwiththeInternational
SocietyforQuality-of-LifeStudies.Handbooksintheseriesfocusoncaptur-
ing and reviewing the latest quality-of-life research literature in specific life
domains, on specific populations, or in relation to specific disciplines or
sectorsofpublicpolicy.Inaddition,thehandbookspresentdifferentresearch
methodsandtechniques,aswellasdifferentproposalsforprofessionalaction
and policy making, providing bibliographies originating from different parts
oftheplanet,whichallowsanupdatedoverviewofeachtopicfromaglobal
perspective. The handbooks are a key reference resource on quality-of-life
research and are edited by global experts in their respective fields, with
multidisciplinaryanddiverseauthorrepresentation.
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Habib Tiliouine Denise Benatuil
Maggie K. W. Lau
Editors
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Handbook of Children s
Risk, Vulnerability
and Quality of Life
Global Perspectives
Editors
HabibTiliouine DeniseBenatuil
LaboratoryofEducationalProcesses UNICOM,SchoolofSocialSciences
&SocialContext(Labo-PECS) UniversidadNacionaldeLomasde
Universitéd’Oran2 Zamora
Oran,Algeria BuenosAires,Argentina
MaggieK.W.Lau
SchoolofGraduateStudies/
InstituteofPolicyStudies
LingnanUniversity
TuenMun,HongKong
ISSN2468-7227 ISSN2468-7235 (electronic)
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Contents
1 HandbookofChildren’sRisk,VulnerabilityandQuality
ofLife:AnIntroduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
HabibTiliouine,DeniseBenatuil,andMaggieK.W.Lau
PartI ConceptsofSecurity,VulnerabilityandQualityofLife
2 AdversityandChildWell-Being:ExploringRecent
ResearchfromDifferentFields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
LilianaFernandes
3 TheValueofTransnational,QualitativeComparative
ResearchonChildren’sVulnerability:Methodological
andEpistemologicalReflections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
TobiaFattore,SusannFegter,andChristineHunner-Kreisel
4 IdeologicalConstructionsofChildhood:Considerationsfor
Children’sSubjectiveWell-Being. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
ShazlySavahl,SabirahAdams,StefSlembrouk,
andCharlesMalcolm
PartII Children’sPerspectivesofViolenceandSafety
5 Well-BeingandSafetyinChildrenfromBuenosAires,
Argentina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
DeniseBenatuil
6 Children’sPerspectivesonSafety:TheCaseofGreece. . . . 91
ZoiNikiforidou,AntoannetaPotsi,andApostolisPapachristos
7 NegotiatingSafeSpaces:Children’sDiscursive
ConstructionsofSafetyandVulnerabilityinaContext
ofViolence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
SabirahAdamsandShazlySavahl
8 AbouttheFearof“theOther”:ContributionstoReflecting
onChildren’sOpinionsofSafetyfromaPolitical
Standpoint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
DamiánMolgaray
v
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9 AChildStandpointonIssuesofSafetyinPublicPlaces
inDiverseUrbanLocalitiesinEasternAustralia. . . . . . . . 133
SharonBessellandJanMason
PartIII PeerRelationshipsforChildren'sFeelingsofSafety
andQualityofLife
10 InfluenceofVulnerabilityonSubjectiveWell-Beingand
Self-PerceivedSafetyAmongBangladeshiChildren. . . . . . 151
HaridhanGoswami,M.IbrahimKhalil,
andBijoyKrishnaBanik
11 OfflineandOnlinePeerViolence:SignificanceforChild
Well-BeinginSoutheastEurope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
LucijaVejmelka,NikaSušac,andLindaRajhvajnBulat
12 UnderstandingBullyingCasesinIndonesia. . . . . . . . . . . . 187
IhsanaSabrianiBorualogoandFerranCasas
13 CyberbullyingasaNewFormofAggression:ATheoretical
ReviewandImplicationsforAdolescentWell-Being. . . . . . 201
JorgeJ.Varela,ConstanzaGonzález,PaulinaA.Sánchez,
PaulinaMGuzmán,andAdrianaOlaya-Torres
14 WhatStopsaGoodLifeforChildren?AnExplorationof
Bullying,PovertyandGender. . .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . .. 213
LarissaPople
15 VictimizationbyPeersandSubjectiveWell-beingof
RomanianSchoolChildren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
SergiuBălțătescu,IoanaSîrbu,ClaudiaBacter,
andAdelaLazăr
PartIV TheQualityofLifeofChildreninVulnerableContexts
16 TheWellbeingofChildrenintheVulnerableContext
ofSeasonalMigrantWorkersinTurkey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
PιnarUyan-SemerciandEmreErdoğan
17 HowDoWorkingChildrenFeelaboutTheirLives?And
WhyItMattersThatWeKnow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
CatherinePellenq,SusanGunn,andMohammedVaqasAli
18 TheChildrenofPalestine:StruggleandSurvivalUnder
Occupation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
SamahJabrandElizabethBerger
19 UnderstandingRelationsbetweenAccesstoHealthcare,
SocialCapital,andHealth-RelatedWell-Beingof
Street-InvolvedChildreninGhana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
PadmoreAduseiAmoahandKingsleyAttaNyamekye
Contents vii
20 TheWell-beingandInclusionofChildrenfromAfricaand
theMiddleEastLivinginMalta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
CarmelCefai,NoemiKeresztes,NatalieGalea,
andRachelSpiteri
21 UnderstandingFactorsChallengingChildren’s
Well-BeinginAlgeria:AResearchSynthesis. . . . . . . . . . . 329
HabibTiliouine
PartV InterventionsandPractice
22 ProgramstoPromoteChildren’sWellbeing:FromData
toPractice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
PauloC.DiasandIreneCadime
23 ExploringAfter-SchoolActivitiesbySocio-Demographic
CharacteristicsandSubjectiveWell-Being. . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
MigenaKapllanaj,NatalliaSianko,andRobertGjedia
24 Children’sStandpointonVulnerability:Implications
forSocialWorkPracticewithChildrenandYoung
People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
GabrielleDrake,JanFalloon,TobiaFattore,RheaFelton,
JanMason,andLiseMogensen
25 FamilyFoundations:ImprovingourUnderstanding
ofWhatNeglectinAdolescenceMeans,theHarmitCauses
andhowtoRespond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
PhilRaws
26 SpecificitiesoftheSubjectiveQualityofLifeofChildren
InvolvedwiththeChildWelfareSystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
EmmanuelleToussaint,FabienBacro,AgnèsFlorin,
andPhilippeGuimard
27 AQualityofLifePerspectiveonVulnerability:TheCase
ofYoungPeopleinFlemishYouthCare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
ChrisSwerts,FienVanWolvelaer,DidierReynaert,
andJessicaDeMaeyer
1
Handbook of Children’s Risk,
Vulnerability and Quality of Life:
An Introduction
Habib Tiliouine, Denise Benatuil, and Maggie K. W. Lau
Abstract
Thishandbookbringstogetherawiderange
During the last few years there has been a of perspectives from established experts and
growinginterestwithintheinternationalcom- emerging scholars, who represent the five
munityinresearchandpoliciesrelatedtowell- continents and a very wide range of cultural
being and the experienced quality of life of contexts, which encourages different ways of
children. This has resulted in an increased knowing and research, trying to give place to
numberofpublicationsandmanyinternational differentvoicesandgeneratingquestions.
research projects. Despite these, few studies It covers theoretical, empirical, political,
have addressed the link between well-being, and practice-based contributions. The
risk, and states of vulnerability in children’s incorporationofmultidisciplinaryandempiri-
lives across the world. This is an emerging cal contributions was favoured using qualita-
area of interest and there are many gaps in tive, quantitative and/or mixed methods
theexistingknowledge. approaches. We hope that the approach taken
New approaches placing children as main inthishandbookbecameacallthatchildren’s
voices, generate new relationships between issues should be prioritized to build a safer,
concepts,andvaluedifferenttypesofmethods more just, and more prosperous world for all
tostudychildren’swell-being.Inaddition,the people.
development of international research
networks have facilitated comparisons and
analyses between countries, contexts, and
1.1 The Focus of the Volume
diversecultures.
During thelastfew years there has beena grow-
inginterestwithintheinternationalcommunityin
H.Tiliouine(*) researchandpoliciesrelatedtowell-beingandthe
LaboratoryofEducationalProcesses&SocialContext experienced quality of life of children. This has
(Labo-PECS),Universitéd’Oran2,Oran,Algeria
resultedinanincreasednumberofpublicationsin
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the field. Additionally, many international
D.Benatuil
research projects have already been in develop-
UNICOM,SchoolofSocialSciences,Universidad
ment for years with highly interesting results,
NacionaldeLomasdeZamora,BuenosAires,Argentina
including projects that undertake comparative
M.K.W.Lau
research at an international level such as: Young
SchoolofGraduateStudies/InstituteofPolicyStudies,
LingnanUniversity,TuenMun,HongKong
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H.Tiliouineetal.(eds.),HandbookofChildren’sRisk,VulnerabilityandQualityofLife,International
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2 H.Tiliouineetal.
Lives, Children’s Worlds, Children’s Under- contexts and diverse cultures, enriching the
standing of Well-Being, and the ongoing work possibilities of analyzing and interpreting the
of the UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti. findingswithnewknowledge.
Research has been initiated and developed to Forthishandbookthebroadconceptsof“risk”
measure and compare the well-being of children and “vulnerability” have been chosen. We can
in different countries and contexts. Through this think about the notion of risk in terms of being
work important progress has been made in or feeling unsafe from risky experiences such as
identifying some of the conditions for a good violenceandabuse,otherformsofthreat,psycho-
childhood. One prominent feature of recent logical distress, deprivation from access to basic
workistherecognitionofthevalueofchildren’s servicessuchashousing,health,andeducationas
voices, considering them in many of the well as the potential dangers resulting from
investigationsasthetrueprotagonistsandgiving engagement in various behaviours, including
authoritytotheirword. those linked to new technologies, by children.
Forsometimenow,therehasbeenaninterest- Wethinkthatinsomeothercasesthevulnerabil-
ing shift in the concept of well-being and its ity and risk of children are linked to broader
policy implications. This has been characterized externalfactors,suchaswars,conflicts,andenvi-
by a move away from a narrow focus on the ronmentalevents.Unfortunately,warsandarmed
absence of discomfort, disease, low mortality conflicts continue to be part of our world today.
rate and suffering towards approaches that also They are creating many victims, displaced and
incorporate indicators of health, resilience, posi- refugee children. Moreover, economic hardship
tivefunctioningandotherrelatedconstructsstem- and poverty are forcing many people to attempt
mingfrompositivepsychology. to cross long distances to reach immigration
Despitethesedevelopments,fewpastresearch destinations using primitive means which often
studies have addressed the link between well- lead to tragic ends. Children are unfortunately
being, safety and states of vulnerability in often forgotten when extremism, terrorism and
children’s lives across the world. Moreover, racism are evoked. Every day there are news
when the idea of “vulnerability” is studied it is reports of children being kidnapped, enslaved,
often used to refer to a restricted set of topics sexually abused, and forced to work and to live
including serious health problems, severe finan- intheworstpossibleconditions.Inaddition,there
cial hardship, mortality, orphaned children, etc. arethedangers of substance use anddrugaddic-
However,thechangesthathavebeentakingplace tion to which thousands of children are exposed
generate a movement which is continuously throughout the world. We hope through the
expandingwithinthisfieldofknowledge. approach taken in this handbook to expand and
This is an emerging area of interest and there diversify the debate about risk and vulnerability
are many gaps in the existing knowledge. New inchildren’slivesworldwide.
approachesplacingchildrenasmainvoices,gen- Moreover, including theconcept of quality of
erate new relationships between concepts, and life (QoL) in the debate is expected to further
value different types of methods to study invigoratetheissuesdiscussedhere.Asanoutput
children’swell-being(usingquantitative,qualita- variable,QoLgoesbeyondapurelymaterialistic
tive and mixed methods). They allow for the view of well-being to a wider conception where
inclusionofdifferentkindsofanalysis,theinclu- psychological and subjective indicators are
sion of diverse variables, and perspectives from employed to consolidate the proposed analyses.
different disciplines, including positive psychol- For some of the authors of this handbook a QoL
ogy, politics, anthropology, communication, approach is proposed as an alternative which
technologies, etc. In addition, globalization and should be favoured in dealing with children
the development of international research because of underlying philosophical issues and
networks have favoured and facilitated because it is much fruitful compared to some
comparisons and analyses between countries, moretraditionaltreatments.
