Citation

Bonnerjea L. Disasters 1994; 18(3): 277-283.

Affiliation

Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7953496

Abstract

Large numbers of children get separated from their families and communities in disasters. Family tracing is an attempt to find the families and assess if the children can be reunited. This paper examines how questions about the rights of children arise in the context of family tracing. It then looks at the challenges posed by effective and child sensitive tracing to both emergency and development programmes. The paper suggests that traditional coping mechanisms within communities are part of the social infractructure which all disaster intervention, including family tracing programmes, need explicitly to build on and repair.

Language: en