Wendy Sims-Schouten Knihy

Resilience is more than survival--Wendy Sims-Schouten amplifies the resistant and transformative voices of marginalized and displaced children across history. Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices resists the way we think about resilience, shifting the focus from personal perseverance to the lived realities of children and young people pushed to society's margins. Wendy Sims-Schouten moves beyond the familiar idea of resilience as individual grit, instead exploring how defiance and even compliance emerge as survival strategies for care leavers, bullied youth, ethnic minorities, and those with histories of migration and displacement. Spanning one hundred and fifty years of personal and collective histories, this book brings together interdisciplinary research co-produced with those too often left out of resilience studies. By centering their voices, it unveils how resilience is shaped not just by inner strength, but by systemic barriers and the availability of support. Revisiting Childhood Resilience calls on policymakers and practitioners to rethink resilience as something far more complex than an individual trait; a process deeply rooted in context and agency.

Focusing on the evolving approaches to safeguarding and mental health in childhood, this book examines the individual, material, and institutional factors that contribute to the 'deserving/undeserving' paradigm. Through a critical realist perspective, it delves into the social structures influencing these dynamics, offering a nuanced understanding of the complexities surrounding childhood welfare.

Approaches regarding safeguarding and mental health in childhood have been in constant flux. Framed within a critical realist ontology, this book provides insight into causal factors (individual, material, institutional) and social structures that impact on the continued legacy of the 'deserving/undeserving' paradigm.