Conceptualising and challenging child neglect in humanitarian action: Protecting displaced children in Jordan and Palestine

Caitlin Procter; Kirsten Pontalti; Jason Hart; Mohammed Alruzzi

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106539

Conceptualising and challenging child neglect in humanitarian action: Protecting displaced children in Jordan and Palestine

Caitlin Procter, Kirsten Pontalti, Jason Hart^*, Mohammed Alruzzi

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Abstract

Humanitarian organisations commonly identify neglect as a specific form of harm from which children should be protected. However, lack of debate about the aetiology of child neglect has left intact a tendency to assume that it is due to a failure of caregivers. Obscured by this assumption are the role of the humanitarian system in supporting or, indeed, undermining the efforts of primary caregivers.

Original language	English
Article number	106539
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Child Abuse and Neglect
Volume	147
Early online date	8 Dec 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106539
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2024

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The research upon which this article is based was co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office under its Humanitarian Protection Programme. Grant Ref: AH/T007508/1 .

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Child Neglect
Protection
Refugees
Humanitarianism
Middle East

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