 | Child Rights and Displacement in East Africa: Agency and Spatial Justice in Planning Policy Subjects: Area Studies; Built Environment; Global Development; Education; Health and Social Care; Law; Politics & International Relations; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Development Policy; Population & Development; Childhood; Family Child & Social Welfare Law; African Studies; Planning; Regional Development; Health & Society; International Relations; Regulatory Policy; Education; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; African Culture and Society; African Development; African Law; Community Planning and Planning Techniques; Housing and Communities; Spatial and Regional Planning; Africa - Regional Development; Children and Youth; Migration & Diaspora; Immigration Policy; Childhood and Adolescence; Childhood - Anthropology; Race & Ethnic Studies; Social Policy; Focusing on the intersection of spatial justice, child rights, and planning policy, this book investigates the challenges of resettlement in East Africa, where half of those displaced are children. The challenges created by displacement and resettlement are often considered from an adult-centric perspective by planners and humanitarian and development experts. The spatial injustice of displacement and resettlement, the agency of children, and the application of tools such as Child Participatory Vulnerability Index (CPVI) is siloed, commonly overlooked, or discounted. This book uses a CPVI and rights-based assessment of land-use policies, to investigate resettlement due to conflict and settlement in northern Uganda, floods due to climate change in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and urban to rural migration of children due to the aids pandemic in Western Kenya. Case studies from over a decade of field research are integrated with examples from applied planning projects and policy development in the East Africa region. This book uses spatial justice theory to show how child-friendly planning approaches can positively promote child rights in the context of resettlement. Providing important insights on how to enact child-friendly planning in informal settlements, refugee camps, and displacement camps, this book will be of interest to planning and development professionals, and researchers across the fields of children's rights, Development Studies, Planning, and African Studies. Cherie C. Enns is Associate Professor at the School of Land Use and Environment Change/Global Development Studies, at the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada. Willibard J. Kombe is a Professor at Ardhi University, the Institute of Human Settlements Studies, Tanzania. |
