- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- African history and culture analysis
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Middle East Politics and Society
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Psychology of Development and Education
- Migration and Exile Studies
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
University of California, Riverside
2022
University of Oxford
2005-2021
The Open University
2019-2020
Queen Elizabeth’s Academy
2008
Abstract The past few decades have witnessed international pressure to get more children in the world educated, for longer. view that school education is core definitions of good childhoods and successful youth transitions increasingly widespread, globally locally. However, structural inequalities persist migration has become an important individual, family community response overcome these gaps. This article explores relationship between educational aspirations among a group young people...
Drawing on data from Peru, this article explores how poverty mediates diverse risks in rural children's lives. It offers four main arguments. First, risk is not simply a feature of ‘extraordinary’ childhoods, but integral to everyday, ‘ordinary’ Second, responses adversity are crucially shaped by sociomoral considerations. Third, children participate actively household mitigation, their engagement structured individual (biographical) and collective factors. Fourth, changing circumstances...
This paper draws on data from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, to explore how international development research might be strengthened by including qualitative (QLR). We review three problems in studies: (a) the relatively low status within hierarchy knowledge, (b) predominance cross-sectional research, and, (c) marginality with children and young people. offer examples Lives early marriage Ethiopia, household poverty dynamics India aspirations migration Peru,...
Journal Article Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of Studying Refugee Children in the Middle East North Africa: Young Palestinian, Afghan Sahrawi Refugees Get access Dawn Chatty, Chatty Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gina Crivello, Crivello Gillian Lewando Hundt Studies, Volume 18, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 387–409, https://doi.org/10.1093/refuge/fei037 Published: 01 2005
The original cohortYoung Lives is an international longitudinal study set up in 2001 to investigate the changing nature of childhood poverty four low-and-middle-income countries [Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru Vietnam] over a 15-year period.][3][4] In cohort profile [https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dys082], 5 we described data collection findings from three rounds quantitative survey 2009, qualitative 2010/11.What reason for new focus (or collection)?
‘Orphans’ became a category of vulnerable children deserving special protection in the context global AIDS epidemic, and currently notion ‘orphans children’ (OVC), dominates much policy for protecting across sub-Saharan Africa. Analysis survey qualitative data from Young Lives Ethiopia found that parental death does not guarantee often assumed negative impacts on children's experiences, inequalities between are greater along dimensions poverty household location, compared to orphan status....
This article asks why some children growing up in poverty seem to fare well, despite the odds being stacked against them early life. The data come from Young Lives, a 15-year mixed methods study of childhood tracing trajectories cohort boys and girls (n = 4,000) born 1994 Ethiopia, India, Peru Vietnam. We use survey identify poorest households who, by age 22, were faring well. addresses three main questions: (a) What are key determining moments children's lives? (b) makes difference for...
This article explores the changing place of 'motherhood' in lives girls and young women Ethiopia, from a generational, life course perspective. It focuses on 'motherhood childhood' context rapid social change, drawing multi-generational narratives women, their mothers grandmothers, as part Young Lives, fifteen-year study that has traced trajectories group growing up poverty. Marriage motherhood childhood past generations was norm but increasingly come to be seen incompatible with...
In this piece, we draw on recent experiences from the Young Lives study to discuss some of ethical and practical challenges facing longitudinal cohort studies in low- middle-income countries time coronavirus. We argue that COVID-19 has instigated an ‘ethics disruption’ for social researchers across world, like Lives, requires navigating three core considerations: first, managing research relationships reciprocity within observational design; second, maintaining methodological continuity...