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Promoting Voice and Agency Among Forcibly Displaced Children and Adolescents

Participatory Approaches to Practice in Conflict-Affected Settings

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ID13089552
AuthorsMichael Wessells (0000-0002-3999-9320, Columbia University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume9
Issue3
Pages139-153
Publication date2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal on Migration and Human Security (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2330-2488 • E-ISSN: 2331-5024
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/23315024211036014
OpenAlexW3211616956
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited39

Globally, large numbers of children and adolescents are displaced by armed conflict, which poses significant threats to their mental health, psychosocial well-being, and protection. Although humanitarian work to support mental health, psychosocial well-being, and protection has done considerable good, this paper analyzes how humanitarian action is limited by excessive reliance on a top-down approach. Although the focus is on settings of armed conflict, the analysis offered in this paper applies also to the wider array of humanitarian settings that spawn increasing numbers of refugees globally

Agency (philosophy · Armed conflict · Citizen journalism · Conflict resolution · Displaced person · Internally displaced person · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Public relations · Refugee · Sociology · Spawn (biology · Migration, Health and Trauma · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health

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