Abandoned Children

• Preface Judith Ennew; 1. Nobody's children? A reconsideration of child abandonment Catherine Panter-Brick; 2. Circulation of children in eighteenth-century Portugal Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa; 3. The lives of foundlings in nineteenth-century Italy David I. Kertzer; 4. Modelling the economic and human costs of foundling care in the Azores Malcolm T. Smith; 5. Five centuries of foundling history in Florence: changing patterns of abandonment, care, and mortality Pier Paulo Viazzo, Maria Bortolotto and Andre Zanotto; 6. Child indoctrination in the Greek civil war and child welfare policy Eftihia Voutira and Aigli Bourskou; 7. Children separated from their families in the Mozambique war Helen Charnley; 8. A psychological perspective of 'abandoned' and 'abandoning' street children Angela Veale, Max Taylor and Carol Linehan; 9. In search of Brazil's street children Tobias Hecht; 10. A comparative perspective on abandonment in Nepal Rachel Baker and Catherine Panter-Brick; 11. Abandonment and child prostitution in a Thai slum community Heather Montgomery; 12. Seen but not heard: refugee children and models of intervention Rachel Hinton; 13. Children of protracted exile: where do we belong? Mia Flores-Borquez.

'I recommend a full and careful reading of this volume to all those interested in research and intervention with children in difficult circumstances.' Jill E. Korbin, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute