[child-rights] Call for Papers - Human Rights in Child Welfare

CALL FOR PAPERS 
Special Issue: Human Rights in Child Welfare Journal of Intergroup
Relations Journal of the National Association of Human Rights Workers
Guest editors: Laura Dreuth Zeman and Julie A. Steen School of Social
Work, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale 

This call for papers focuses on critical human rights conflicts and
their application to child welfare. The special issue will provide an
examination of the multiple perspectives of children and biological,
adoptive, and foster parents along with child welfare workers. Those
in the field know a great deal about risk factors for abuse and
neglect, consequences of abuse and neglect, and service models for
treating victims and abusers. 
However, the field has yet to critically examine the rights of those
involved. This special edition addresses this need by examining human
rights from diverse perspectives, families, and environments that
challenge child welfare workers and systems. 

The special issue editors welcome case examples, first person
narratives, policy analyses, and original research that critically
examine human rights conflicts in child welfare practice. 

Examples of possible topics include: 
* Decision-making regarding family reconciliation and 
termination, 
* Poverty, 
* Race, discrimination, and cross cultural foster and 
adoptive placements, 
* Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgender biases and 
issues in foster care, 
* Privacy, 
* Native Americans and, 
* International human rights challenges in child welfare 
including homeless children, AIDS orphans, child labor or slavery,
refugee parents and their children. 

Paper submission: Manuscripts submitted will pass through the
Journal's standard peer review process. Accepted manuscripts are
expected to meet the APA style formatting guidelines of the Journal
of Intergroup Relations prior to publication. 

Authors can send inquiries or can submit an electronic copy (MS Word
or RTF formats), with full contact details, by email to Laura Dreuth
Zeman, dreuth@siu.edu or Julie Steen, jsteen@siu.edu. 

Deadlines for paper submission: February 1st 2007