Combatant Children: Ideologies and Experiences of Childhood in the Royal Navy and British Army, 1902–1918

James, Kate

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“…Especially boys who became involved in warfare as child combatants were 'catapulted into a man's world where childhood notions of manhood were often shattered'. 31 Experiencing violence, facing dangers, and seeing the horrors of war ended many children's childhood. War's immediate side-effects, such as displacement, not just from a specific country or state but also 'from the child's normative "places" of comforthome, family, and childhood itself', often functioned as an 'initiation into the adult world'.…”

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Rethinking Childhood and War in the Twentieth Century

Kind-Kovács

2023

Contemporary European History

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On 7 March 2022, Catherine Russell, UNICEF executive director, and Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, demanded that ‘unaccompanied and separated children fleeing escalating conflict in Ukraine must be protected’.1 They insisted that children should, once they crossed Ukraine's borders, be immediately registered, offered safe spaces, reunified with their families, and receive emergency care.2 Under no circumstances should children who came with their families be separated, and everything should be done to protect children from exploitation, trafficking and gender-based violence.3 However, since then, countless children from Ukraine who have crossed the borders unaccompanied have become victims of human trafficking and exploitation. Tens of thousands of children in Ukrainian state institutions or who had been orphaned prior to the war could not be protected. They were deported to Russia, many were interned in reeducation camps, and many were forcefully adopted by Russian families or moved into foster care.4 Since the war started, children have again become a means of warfare. The current war against Ukraine once more demonstrates how vulnerable children can become when they are separated from their families. Children have, once again, become targets of massive human rights violations and of crimes against humanity.

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Section: Children's Mobilisationmentioning

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Rethinking Childhood and War in the Twentieth Century

Kind-Kovács

2023

Contemporary European History

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Combatant Children: Ideologies and Experiences of Childhood in the Royal Navy and British Army, 1902–1918

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Rethinking Childhood and War in the Twentieth Century

Rethinking Childhood and War in the Twentieth Century

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