SOCIOBORD’s latest publication – Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare
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SOCIOBORD’s special issue “Children, border(land)s and mixed economies of welfare” has just been published in the latest issue of Childhood.
Co-edited by Dominika Gruziel and Machteld Venken (University of Luxembourg), the collection explores the role of state borders in shaping child welfare. The issue includes six original case studies, offering empirical insights from various European borderlands, from the aftermath of the First World War to the present day. Each case study sheds light on a different aspect of the mixed economies of welfare in borderland areas, together suggesting a framework with which to analyse the complex influence of welfare providers on children’s well-being in these intermediary spaces.
During the development of this special issue, Sociobord partnered with several colleagues affiliated with the EUR&QUA international research project (2016-2020), part of the Interreg Programme V A Greater Region. This EU-funded cross-border program promotes cooperation and networking between professional actors within the Greater Region, a border region consisting of French Lorraine, Belgian Wallonia and its German-speaking Community, Luxembourg, Saarland, and Rhineland-Palatinate. The EUR&QUA project investigated cross-border assistance in child and youth welfare, disability care, and the establishment of a cross-border area for international child protection. SOCIOBORD thanks Bettina Diwersy, Stefan Köngeter, Christian Schröder, Mark Unbehend and Ulrike Zöller for joining us in this publication project.
Sociobord expresses its gratitute to Tatek Abebe and Sarada Balagopalan, the editors of Childhood, for taking an interest in our special issue and assisting us with its development. Special thanks to Ragnhild Berge, the managing editor, for navigating the peer reviewing and production process.
We are equally grateful to Sabine Bollig for her insightful comments on the early versions of the special issue’s articles during the preparatory workshop held at Luxembourg University in December 2023.
To read the articles, please click here