Not a Fading Problem: Child Protection from the 1950s to the 1980s
This chapter looks at child protection in Hungary from the 1950s to the 1980s, arguing that the organisational structures of state welfare bolstered parent-child ties yet restricted sibling relations. I show that this period was characterised by an increa
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Care of the State
Jennifer Rasell
Care of the State Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary
Jennifer Rasell
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Acknowledgments
A mixture of choice and opportunity led me to this topic and I would like to thank the great number of individuals and institutions from several countries who cared for me and my research. This project would have turned out very differently without the willingness of care leavers and child protection staff to discuss their memories with me and show me around. My research participants remain anonymous, but one of my biggest debts is to them. I truly appreciate their time, openness and trust. I wrote the thesis on which this book is based within the framework of the project ‘Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late State Socialism’ based at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam, Germany. It was a great privilege to have my ideas nurtured by this network of historians and by friends and colleagues at ZZF. In particular, I thank Jan Behrends, Ulf Brunnbauer, Jens Gieseke and Pavel Kolář for the numerous insightful comments and conference invitations. I am especially grateful to the international supervision triangle formed by my PhD supervisors: to Wolfgang Kaschuba for welcoming me to the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, to Th
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