Fluid Households, Complex Families: The Impacts of Children's Migration as a Response to HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

Young, Lorraine; Ansell, Nicola

doi:10.1111/0033-0124.5504005

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“…The past decade has seen medical geographers engage with a variety of STI-related topics such as children's responses to HIV/ AIDS in South Africa (Young and Ansell, 2003), the impact of HIV on African communities (Thomas, 2007), STIs and (il)legal pharmaceuticals (Del Casino, 2007;Ford et al, 1997), HIV and community identity (Brown, 2006;Law, 2003), HIV and migration (Elmore, 2006) and the environmental and spatial factors that increase the risk of STI transmission (Marshall et al, 2009).…”

Section: Geographical Research On Sexually Transmitted Infectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Where do young Irish women want Chlamydia-screening services to be set up? A qualitative study employing Goffman's impression management framework

Balfe

Brugha

Connell³

et al. 2010

Health & Place

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a b s t r a c tWe conducted interviews with 35 young women recruited from eight community healthcare rural and urban settings across two regions of Ireland. The aim of the study was to explore where these women thought Chlamydia-screening services should be located. Respondents wanted screening services to be located in settings where they would not be witnessed either asking for, or being asked to take, Chlamydia tests. Respondents were worried that their identities would become stigmatized if others were to find out that they had accepted screening. Findings are interpreted through Goffman's stigma and impression management framework. We conclude with public health recommendations.

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Section: Geographical Research On Sexually Transmitted Infectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Where do young Irish women want Chlamydia-screening services to be set up? A qualitative study employing Goffman's impression management framework

Balfe

Brugha

Connell³

et al. 2010

Health & Place

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“…Some of the more vulnerable households are those with bedridden, sick (Robson et al, 2006), or ageing (Nyambedha, Wandibba, & Aagaard-Hansen, 2003a;Nyambedha et al, 2003b) members. Whilst elderly and sick foster parents might provide valuable emotional support, they might not be able to provide for children's material and physical needs (Robson et al, 2006;Young & Ansell, 2003). In such situations many children are forced to take on nursing, head of house and income generating responsibilities ).…”

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Orphan competent communities: A framework for community analysis and action

Skovdal

Campbell

2010

Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

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Vulnerable children in Africa have traditionally been absorbed and supported by their communities. However, in the context of AIDS and poverty, communities are increasingly stretched, compromising the quality of care available to children affected by AIDS. This calls for an understanding of the processes that best facilitate the capacity of communities to provide good quality care and support. In the interests of furthering debate and practice in this area, we seek to develop an analytical framework that builds on two interlinked strands. Firstly, we emphasise the need to acknowledge the active coping and resilience of children affected by AIDS, rather than seeing them as passive victims. It is through taking account of children's and communities' indigenous coping strategies, and the complex dynamics between children and fostering families, that interventions have the best chance of supporting communities so that they can best facilitate resilience and well-being of AIDSaffected children under their guardianship. Secondly, we highlight six psychosocial resources that we argue should be promoted in communities to improve the quality of support available to children affected by AIDS, and thereby enhance the coping and resilience of children.

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“…Pressures on survival and livelihoods -additionally induced for example by the HIV/AIDs pandemiccan have dramatic impact on family structures through migration of individual members as a coping strategy. Processes of fragmentation and re-formation of households through the movements of children involves multiple shifts, create fluid structures and complex family formation (Young and Ansell, 2003). …”

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Gender, Poverty, and Social Justice

Chhachhi¹,

Trương²

2010

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies

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Views on poverty are deeply rooted in cultural frameworks about the human condition shaped by histories. In the debate on modernity, perspectives on poverty oscillate between: a) making the poor -their 'morals' and 'culture' -responsible for their own situation and b) positioning the causes in structural shifts in regimes of accumulation and changing forms of governing the population.In this paper we review and explore some key contributions to poverty knowledge from a gender lens. Feminist contributions to poverty debates are wide ranging and hinge on a key area of contention: the hegemonic and binary treatment of the 'production' of things and 'reproduction' and nurturance of human life as different and separate social spaces, rather than as both fundamentally integral to a human society. By valuing the production of things more than the reproduction of human life, this construct has buffeted both class and masculinised power and operates as a gender-based mechanism of selection and exclusion for voice and participation. This is evident in the discourses on poverty, which surfaced in the context of capitalist industrialisation and political debates on pauperism in the 19th century. Early feminist research followed an empiricist mode in highlighting the invisibility of women and the gaps in poverty data. The findings of these studies gradually helped define the contours of a conceptual critique of the neo-liberal model of accumulation. The feminist conceptual critique of poverty knowledge formed part of a broader challenge to the androcentric and culturally specific assumptions of mainstream knowledge systems. However the contributions of feminist poverty knowledge go beyond some of these new knowledge systems through the articulation of key concepts of gender analysis such as intrahousehold power relations, care economy, the emphasis on subjectivity, agency and the notion of 'trade-offs', all of which offer an epistemological position that provides a lens on poverty that addresses a wider social domain.In the policy field there is limited incorporation of gendered poverty knowledge through 1) selective appropriation; 2) the construction of new myths; and 3) the selective articulation of gendered poverty knowledge that omits major implications for social justice and transformation. This reflects the discursive construction of a new orthodoxy in poverty knowledge systems in line with extant neo-liberal rationality. The present transnational character of poverty and its links with gender poses tremendous challenges to theories of social justice. A gendered analysis of the discourse, politics and policies for reducing poverty forms an important component of a broader social justice framework to address the intersection of emerging forms of exclusion and vulnerability marked by class, caste, ethnicity, race as well as local and transnational processes and dynamics of power.

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Fluid Households, Complex Families: The Impacts of Children's Migration as a Response to HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

Cited by 93 publications

References 16 publications

Where do young Irish women want Chlamydia-screening services to be set up? A qualitative study employing Goffman's impression management framework

Where do young Irish women want Chlamydia-screening services to be set up? A qualitative study employing Goffman's impression management framework

Orphan competent communities: A framework for community analysis and action

Gender, Poverty, and Social Justice

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