Re: Call for Papers - Human Rights in Child Welfare

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> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Special Issue: Human Rights in Child Welfare
> Journal of Intergroup Relations
> Journal of the National Association of Human Rights Workers
> Guest editors: Laura Dreuth Zeman and Julie A. Steen
> School of Social Work, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
>
> This call for papers focuses on critical human rights conflicts and their
> application to child welfare. The special issue will provide an
examination
> of the multiple perspectives of children and biological, adoptive, and
> foster parents along with child welfare workers. Those in the field know a
> great deal about risk factors for abuse and neglect, consequences of abuse
> and neglect, and service models for treating victims and abusers. However,
> the field has yet to critically examine the rights of those involved. This
> special edition addresses this need by examining human rights from diverse
> perspectives, families, and environments that challenge child welfare
> workers and systems.
>
> The special issue editors welcome case examples, first person narratives,
> policy analyses, and original research that critically examine human
rights
> conflicts in child welfare practice.
>
> Examples of possible topics include:
> *        Decision-making regarding family reconciliation and termination,
> *        Poverty,
> *        Race, discrimination, and cross cultural foster and adoptive
> placements,
> *        Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgender biases and issues in
> foster care,
> *        Privacy,
> *        Native Americans and,
> *        International human rights challenges in child welfare including
> homeless children, AIDS orphans, child labor or slavery, refugee parents
and
> their children.
>
> Paper submission: Manuscripts submitted will pass through the Journal's
> standard peer review process. Accepted manuscripts are expected to meet
the
> APA style formatting guidelines of the Journal of Intergroup Relations
prior
> to publication.
>
> Authors can send inquiries or can submit an electronic copy (MS Word or
RTF
> formats), with full contact details, by email to Laura Dreuth Zeman,
> dreuth@siu.edu or Julie Steen, jsteen@siu.edu.
>
> Deadlines for paper submission: February 1st 2007
>