Context-Informed Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection in Israel

Dorit Roer-Strier & Yochay Nadan

Seies editors: Richard Krugman and Jill Korbin

This volume adopts a context-informed framework exploring risk, maltreatment, well-being and protection of children in diverse groups in Israel. It incorporates the findings of seven case studies conducted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's NEVET Greenhouse of Context-Informed Research and Training for Children in Need. Each case study applies a context-informed approach to the study of perspectives of risk and protection among parents, children and professionals from different communities in Israel, utilizing varied qualitative methodologies. The volume analyses the importance of studying children and parents's perspectives in diverse societies and stresses the need for a context-informed perspective in designing prevention and intervention programs for children at risk and their families living in diverse societies. It further explores potential contribution to theory, research, practice, policy and training in the area of child maltreatment.

Table of contents:

 

1. Introduction: The Israeli Stage for Context-Informed Perspective on Child Risk and Protection

   Dorit Roer-Strier, Yochay Nadan / Pages 1-12

2. The Evolving Concept of Risk and Israel’s Child Policy

   Nofar Mazursky, Asher Ben-Arieh/ Pages 13-26

3. Context-Informed Research on Child Risk and Protection: Principles and Challenges

   Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan, Natalie Ulitsa/ Pages 27-40

4. Risk Complexity—Culture and Identity in Migration: The Case of Ethiopian Jews

   Michal Gatenio-Kalush, Shelly Engdau-Vanda, Naomi Shmuel/ Pages 41-59

5. Seeing Eye to Eye? Perception of Risk and Protection of Social Workers and Parents Regarding Children of Ethiopian Origin

   Shelly Engdau-Vanda, Michal Gatenio-Kalush, Bat-Hen Karni / Pages 61-80

6. Parental and Professional Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection in Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Community

   Rivka Keesing, Netanel Gemara, Mani Pollak /Pages 81-104

7. Many Children, Many Risks? Listening to the Voices of Families with Many Children from the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Community in Israel

   Hannah Bartl, Heidi Keller, Natali Zohar, Nira Wahle/ Pages 105-129

8. Perceptions of Risk and Protection among French Immigrant Mothers in Israel

   Noémie Bloomberg, Yan Serdtse, Dorit Roer-Strier/ Pages 131-148

9. Parental and Professional Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection in Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Naqab: An Intersectionality-Informed Approach

   Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan, Galit Meir/ Pages 149-170

10. Child Risk and Protection: Perceptions of One-and-a-Half Generation Immigrant Parents from the Former Soviet Union and Israeli Social Workers

    Natalie Ulitsa, Lital Yona, Anna Gogonsky, Dorit Roer-Strier/ Pages 171-196

11. Challenging Social Workers’ Envisioned Definitions of Child Neglect: Perspectives of Mothers Living in an Impoverished Neighborhood

    Lital Yona/ Pages 197-215

12. “Permanent Temporariness:” Eritrean Refugees and Social Workers’ Perceptions of Israeli Policies and Their Implications for Family Well-Being

    Lior Birger/ Pages 217-240

13. Children’s Rights, Protection and Access to Justice: The Case of Palestinian Children in East Jerusalem

    Bella Kovner/ Pages 241-261

14. Young Children’s Perspectives of Risk and Protection

    Yael Ponizovsky-Bergelson, Yael Dayan, Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan, Dorit Roer-Strier, Nira Wahle/ Pages 263-287

15. Disclosing Sexual Abuse in Religious Communities in Israel: Lessons Learned by the Research Group on Child Sexual Abuse

    Dafna Tener, Amitai Marmor, Efrat Lusky Weisrose, Aya Almog-Zaken, Tsofnat Melamed Filtser, Shosh Turjeman / Pages 289-304

16. An Ultra-Orthodox Researcher: Oxymoron or Opportunity? A Typology of Appearances of Conflicting Identities of an Insider Researcher

    Netanel Gemara/ Pages 305-315

17. A Context-Informed Approach to the Study of Child Risk and Protection: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

    Yochay Nadan, Dorit Roer-Strier/ Pages 317-331