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Title: Book review : Homeless children
Creator: Muchini, Backson
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Nancy A. Boxill (ed). Homeless children. New York: Haworth Press, 1990

Title: Book review : Changing family life in East Africa by Philip Leroy Kilbride and Janet Capriotti Kilbride
Creator: Salole, Gerry
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Philip Leroy Kilbride and Janet Capriotti Kilbride. Changing family life in East Africa. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990

Title: Book review : Refugees and international relations
Creator: Lent, Tom
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Gil Loescher and Laila Monahan (eds.). Refugees and international relations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990

Title: Book review : There are no children here by Alex Kotlowitz
Creator: Felsman, Irene C.
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Alex Kotlowitz. There are no children here. New York: Doubleday, 1991

Title: Gender and work - past, present and future : the situation of rural Mozambican women at Mazowe River Bridge Camp in Zimababwe
Creator: Madzokere, Claudia
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Work is an essential part of human life which determines one's status in society. It is usually gender-determined, especially in rural communities where men and women have separate distinct roles which they have to perform. This paper is based on a small-scale study of Mozambican refugee women conducted at Mazowe River Bridge camp (Zimbabwe). In the research, the roles and status of women prior to displacement and currently (in the camp) were examined. An effort was also made to project the...
Show moreWork is an essential part of human life which determines one's status in society. It is usually gender-determined, especially in rural communities where men and women have separate distinct roles which they have to perform. This paper is based on a small-scale study of Mozambican refugee women conducted at Mazowe River Bridge camp (Zimbabwe). In the research, the roles and status of women prior to displacement and currently (in the camp) were examined. An effort was also made to project the roles and status of women in future Mozambique after repatriation. Some of the findings support Makanya's (1990) findings in her case-study on issues of assistance to Mozambican refugee women at Tongogara camp. This study indicated that Mozambican women take the major burden of responsibility for domestic and other chores in the camps, as they used to in Mozambique. An inequitable division of labour between men and women persists. Currently a number or men are also leaving the camp to look for employment, but due to high and rising unemployment in Zimbabwe and police round-ups of Mozambican refugees who leave the camps, the majority find themselves back in the camps again. Their role as family providers is greatly reduced. However men have been and are still being regarded as decision-makers, which leaves women in a very vulnerable, dependent position. The future of the Mozambican women is likely to change due to the skills currently being imparted to them in the camps. The women are likely to emerge and be recognised as people who can work outside the home. However, this would become more possible if women are supported not only with material and financial resources, but also with opportunities and positive attitudes towards them.
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Title: Book review : Faces in the revolution by Gill Straker
Creator: Duncan, Joan W. (Joan West), 1949-
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Gill Straker. Faces in the revolution. Cape Town: D. Philip ; Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992

Title: Unaccompanied Mozambican children in Zimbabwe : the interface with street children
Creator: Muchini, Backson
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: The author provides a descriptive study of street children in Zimbabwe who are unaccompanied Mozambicans. Both the reasons for and types of parent-child separations are examined. Individual case histories are presented to highlight the children's social, emotional, psychological andphysical experiences. The author's findings indicate that unaccompanied Mozambican children in Zimbabwe are found in refugee camps, urban centres, commercial farms, communal areas and children's institutions. They...
Show moreThe author provides a descriptive study of street children in Zimbabwe who are unaccompanied Mozambicans. Both the reasons for and types of parent-child separations are examined. Individual case histories are presented to highlight the children's social, emotional, psychological andphysical experiences. The author's findings indicate that unaccompanied Mozambican children in Zimbabwe are found in refugee camps, urban centres, commercial farms, communal areas and children's institutions. They range in age from early infancy to 18 years and they are predominantly males. The article highlights the vulnerabilities of unaccompanied children, but also provides examples of their coping strategies. It concludes with concrete recommendations on policy and programmatic intervention strategies for this marginalised group.
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Title: Periodica Islamica
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the international contents journal Periodica Islamica

Title: Social policy and administration
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the journal Social policy and administration

Title: Cover, publication data, content, advertisement
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: Specialist focus and orange pips - an introduction
Creator: Fuglesang, Andreas
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: Book review : Refugee children
Creator: Williamson, Jan
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Frederick L. Ahearn, Jr. and Jean L. Athey (eds.). Refugee children. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

Title: Editorial
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: Book review : The psychological well-being of refugee children
Creator: Felsman, J. Kirk (Jackson Kirk)
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Margaret McCallin (ed). The psychological well-being of refugee children. Geneva: International Catholic Child Bureau, 1992

Title: Journal of social development in Africa
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the Journal of social development in Africa

Title: Substitute family placements of unaccompanied Mozambican refugee children : a field perspective
Creator: Phiri, Stanley
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: This article will focus on several issues and difficulties faced by field staff attemptingto provide substitute family placement for unaccompanied Mozambican children in refugee camps. Field observations make it increasingly apparent that specific policy issues and field practice regarding the fostering of unaccompanied refugee children is a complex area requiring substantial attention and follow-up. Problems and dilemmas include the sheer numbers of children in need of placement,...
Show moreThis article will focus on several issues and difficulties faced by field staff attemptingto provide substitute family placement for unaccompanied Mozambican children in refugee camps. Field observations make it increasingly apparent that specific policy issues and field practice regarding the fostering of unaccompanied refugee children is a complex area requiring substantial attention and follow-up. Problems and dilemmas include the sheer numbers of children in need of placement, difficulties in locating families able and willing to care for children other than their own, cultural differences among refugees, unsuccessful placements and difficulties in providing follow-up. A brief description of the context of social services provision will point out some of the severe conditions and lack of resources within which workers attempt to provide good foster placement. Our discussion will draw on our work as an international child-focused, non-governmental organisation (NGO) in southern Africa. SCF (USA) works in collaboration with governmental bodies, indigenous NGOs and the refugee community to create the potential for family reunification. Case examples are presented to highlight relevant issues; names and other identifying information have been changed to protect the identity of children and families. A call for the development of culturally appropriate guidelines is made.
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Title: New and recent books on Africa and the world
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the Transaction Publishers

Title: Book review : Refugee women by Susan Forbes Martin
Creator: Gumbo, Perpetua
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Susan Forbes Martin. Refugee women. London: Zed Books, 1991

Title: Exploring the effects of interacting with survivors of trauma
Creator: Straker, Gillian
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Individuals' reactions to working with survivors of trauma are multiple and diverse. The present paper aims to pinpoint common reactions to trauma work and to elaborate the ways in which these might manifest It outlines experiential exercises aimed at helping workers: to reexamine their own original reasons for engaging with trauma survivors; and to identify both their initial and current reactions to such work. Further exercises are outlined that aim at eliciting solutions to the more...
Show moreIndividuals' reactions to working with survivors of trauma are multiple and diverse. The present paper aims to pinpoint common reactions to trauma work and to elaborate the ways in which these might manifest It outlines experiential exercises aimed at helping workers: to reexamine their own original reasons for engaging with trauma survivors; and to identify both their initial and current reactions to such work. Further exercises are outlined that aim at eliciting solutions to the more negative responses which trauma elicits and in promoting and capitalising upon responses at individual and organisational levels.
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Title: Reuniting unaccompanied children and families in Mozambique : an effort to link networks of community volunteers to a national programme
Creator: Boothby, Neil
Date: 1993
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: This article describes Mozambique's effort to respond to the needs of one group of vulnerable children: children who have been separated from their families as a result of the current emergency. It begins with a brief overview of Mozambique's policy for "unaccompanied children", a term used to underscore the fact that most of these children have been separated from parents and extended families and are not orphans per se. It examines initial efforts to implement this policy through the...
Show moreThis article describes Mozambique's effort to respond to the needs of one group of vulnerable children: children who have been separated from their families as a result of the current emergency. It begins with a brief overview of Mozambique's policy for "unaccompanied children", a term used to underscore the fact that most of these children have been separated from parents and extended families and are not orphans per se. It examines initial efforts to implement this policy through the development of a national tracing and foster care programme, and subsequent attempts to link these national responses to networks of community volunteers throughout the countryside. Mozambique's experience is discussed in the light of its potential to inform programme development for unaccompanied children in other war-affected countries.
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