Working Group 2 focuses on psychosocial care and vulnerability prevention policies for Transnational Families children and adolescents. These are often neglected in both research and practice. Without sensitivity to the vulnerabilities and potential of children and adolescents in Transnational Families , the risk is too great that their needs will continue to be overlooked. WG2 explores how local actors try to handle this missing ‘politics of childhood’ (Scheper-Hughes, 1999) and documents how in some parts of Europe promising projects are emerging to prevent further problematic development from the first signs of vulnerability and to promote strength and resilience. WG2 takes on the challenge of shedding light on whether there are gender and age differences in psychosocial counselling and policy.
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3 February 2025: Meeting of Working Group 2
This working group meeting of WG 2 was held online.
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17-18 October 2024, Berlin (GER): Conference on intergenerational care in transnational families and meeting of Working Group 2
About 35 members of WG2 and some other interested participants gathered together in Berlin for a two-days meeting. The conference on transnational families and care, held on 17 October, gathered international scholars, practitioners, policy-makers and representatives from non-governmental organizations to discuss current issues related to intergenerational care across borders. It was co-hosted by TraFaDy, the…
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Working group leader:
Dr Anne Carolina Ramos
University of Fribourg
Co-leader:
Dr Ioannis Papadopoulos
Research Center for Modern History
Ana Catarina Pinheiro da Mota
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro – UTAD
Contact:
WG2@trafady.eu