The child as vulnerable victim: humanitarianism constructs its object

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• who: Jason Hart from the the professionalised field of child-focused humanitarianismThe task is, indeed, a societal one. It entails moving beyond the stasis in dominant conceptualisation of the child in humanitarian settings as an inevitably vulnerable victim. Such stasis is, in itself, bizarre when compared to the contestation and change concerning the perceived capacities and roles of women. The conceptualisation of children not residing in humanitarian settings has been the focus of lively debate in the global North for at least the last forty years. Yet, the perception of refugee children and those living in settings . . .
  

   

  

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