The Haitian orphanage crisis
Exporting neoliberal family ideals in the debate on vulnerable childhoods in Haiti
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14896208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D M Hoffman (0000-0001-6669-2415, University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development Charlottesville VA USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 577-592 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/chso.12442 |
| OpenAlex | W3127975796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
In light of recent global debates over the dangers of institutionalised orphan care, a new model of family care premised on the trope of family reunification has emerged among Haitian and US faith‐based actors as the best alternative for ensuring vulnerable children's well‐being. This article offers a critical cultural reading of narratives on family reunification in Haiti in social media and advocacy discourse, revealing how this approach privileges Northern assumptions about proper parenting and family life. Not only are these ideas a mismatch with realities in Haiti, they evoke deficit constructions of family and childhood that facilitate the nation's further positioning as a subject of transnational neoliberal governmentality
Faith · Family reunification · Governmentality · Heteronormativity · Immigration · Narrative · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Subject (documents · Trope (literature · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Religion, Society, and Development
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation
Deinstitutionalization of children in residential care facilities
Who shapes global out-of-home childcare? Transnational public and hybrid public-private agency for child (de-)institutionalization
Global out-of-home childcare and world culture
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare
Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention
Killing with Kindness
Neoliberalism and early childhood
Pricing the priceless child
The Earthquake, the Missionaries, and the Future of Vodou
Faith-Based International Development Work
The World of Child Labor
After Neo-Liberalism
Developing family-based care
African American extended families and kinship care
Redefining cultural, national, and religious identity
Accounting for Variability in Mother–Child Play
Saving” Malawi
From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan
"The "Failures of Culture
Invisible Inequality
Children out of bounds in globalising times
Saving children, saving Haiti? Child vulnerability and narratives of the nation
Deconstructing neoliberal childhood
Haiti's Pact with the Devil
Fixing families of mobile children
The vulnerable child in neoliberal contexts
Family Values
Haitian Family Patterns of Migration to South Florida
Too Fat to Be an Orphan
Beyond Good Intentions
Attachment and Culture
The adult North and the young South
Denying biological parenthood
Spatializing States
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |