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Private humanitarian responses to disaster vulnerabilities

The Chernobyl children from Belarus in Italy

Bibliographic Data

ID7707643
AuthorsE Zhukova (0000-0003-1559-6305, Lund University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume27
Issue2
Pages238-253
Publication date2020-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChildhood (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0907-5682 • E-ISSN: 1461-7013
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0907568220901747
OpenAlexW3003091551
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited26

This article aims to understand how children’s vulnerabilities function in humanitarian aid programmes. Different types of vulnerabilities that emerged as a result of and in response to the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986) during recuperation of the affected children from Belarus in their Italian host families are examined. It is shown that while the initiation of aid was based on directly disaster-related vulnerabilities (radiation-related vulnerabilities), the outcomes of this aid were influenced by indirectly disaster-related vulnerabilities (social vulnerabilities

Criminology · Economic growth · Humanitarian aid · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Law · Risk Perception and Management

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year1
Citation span2022 - 2025 (4)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2

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