Kristen Cheney is Professor in the School of Child & Youth Care at the University of Victoria in Canada. An expert in Child and Youth Studies, particularly in the fields of orphanhood and international adoption, she has presented her research to such bodies as the Dutch Parliament and the UN Human Rights Council. She is the author of Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS (Chicago) and co-editor of Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention (Palgrave), as well as many other articles on orphanhood and adoption from an international perspective.
Alle workshops
Challenges for Transformative Justice: The Orphan Industrial Complex
13:05
13:50
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Workshop
Kristen Cheney
This workshops explore the concept of the Orphan Industrial Complex, the global commodification of orphanhood, and adoption. The session discusses the challenges for achieving transformative justice. Additionally, ways to promote change in social systems upholding the most oppressive elements of the Orphan Industrial Complex will be considered.
Implications for Adoptees: The Orphan Industrial Complex
15:15
16:00
Donderdag
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Workshop
Kristen Cheney
In this workshop, we will focus on the ways in which the OIC impacts adoptees—particularly in terms of identity building, origins searching, and reculturation. Finally, we will consider ways to work toward change in social systems that uphold the most oppressive elements of the OIC.
