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Historian Jane McCabe leads us through a compelling research journey that began with uncovering the story of her own grandmother, Lorna Peters, one of 130 adolescents resettled in New Zealand under the scheme between 1908 and 1938. Using records from the ‘Homes’ in Kalimpong and in-depth interviews with other descendants in New Zealand, she crafts a compelling, evocative, and unsentimental yet moving narrative - one that not only brings an untold part of imperial history to light, but also transforms previously broken and hushed family histories into an extraordinary collective story. This book attends to both the affective dimension of these traumatic familial disruptions, and to the larger economic and political drivers that saw government and missionary schemes breaking up Anglo-Indian families - schemes that relied on future forgetting.

History --- Colonialism --- Colonial History --- Imperialism --- New Zealand --- Imperial History --- Resettlement

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The decision on conditional release from prison (Art. 86 – 89 SCC) is one of the most important decisions in the Swiss criminal justice system. At stake are both the freedom of the convicted person, who is to be given a chance of reintegration by the conditional release, and the security of the general public, which must be protected against the commission of further criminal offences. Despite its significance for convicted persons and the society as a whole, the practice of conditional release is scarcely discussed in Swiss literature: What is the procedure for conditional release? How do the opinions of the parties involved in the procedure influence its outcome? How do the persons responsible for conditional release exercise the discretion left to them by the law? The clarification of these issues seems all the more important given that in recent decades the number of conditional release decisions has decreased and there are considerable cantonal differences. The focus of the dissertation is on the process of decision-making by the responsible authorities in Switzerland, in particular the implementation of the right to be heard, as well as the criteria which influence the decision on the conditional release of offenders. The research is based on a representative sample of 943 criminal files from the cantons of Berne, Fribourg, Lucerne and Vaud, which are evaluated using statistical methods (logistic regression). The results of the investigation show that the responsible authorities select only a few aspects from a large number of case characteristics that largely determine their decision-making process. The decision is strongly influenced by the residency status of the convicted person, his criminal record and the opinion of the prison authorities. The legal prognosis is therefore primarily based on static factors from the past, whereas dynamic factors which the convicted person or the involved actors could influence are more secondary. In addition, it emerges that the temporal and cantonal differences in the release rates do not relate to a differing prison population, as it most often assumed, but to a different way of implementing the law and appreciating the profile of prisoners – following a more restrictive or liberal understanding and practice of the release decision – depending on time and canton. The study shows as well that there is no uniform practice for the procedure: the use of risk assessment tools, the opinions of the prison management or the organisation of the right to be heard are extremely disparate and therefore the right of the sentenced person to an equal and fair trial is not guaranteed to the same extent everywhere. The work concludes with a legal classification of the findings as well as with criminal policy considerations and proposals for a more precise reformulation of Art. 86 SCC. These should contribute to a more harmonious and broader application across cantonal borders and therefore strengthen conditional release as an efficient instrument of crime prevention.

Law --- Criminal Law --- Criminal Procedure Law --- Conditional release --- decision-making --- criminal justice system --- socio-legal studies --- resettlement --- quantitative methods --- Recht --- Strafrecht --- Strafprozessordnung --- Bedingte Entlassung --- Entscheidungsfindung --- Strafvollzug --- Rechtstatsachenforschung --- Übergangsmanagement --- quantitative Methoden

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This Special Issue of Children will focus on the migration arc of children from their country of origin through the experience in refugee camps and, finally, to their arrival in in a new home. It will examine the impact experiencing migration as refugees, immigrants or those internally displaced due to war and conflict has on children’s health. Explored topics include adverse health conditions, trauma and mental health, best practice and care coordination. It explores specific populations, such as children with disabilities, unaccompanied minors and child separation at international borders. This Special Issue also includes an examination of new clinical guidelines, the development of new care systems and advocacy for new policies. It also provides a summary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’s specific mandate to provide for the most vulnerable children in need.

migration --- refugee --- internally displaced persons (IDP) --- immigrant --- children’s rights --- Budapest Declaration --- war --- migration --- resettlement --- refugee --- youth --- exclusion --- cultural norms --- Quebec --- Canada --- child morbidity --- disease burden --- refugee crisis --- immigrant families --- food insecurity --- supplemental nutrition assistance program --- refugee --- children --- anemia --- burns --- trauma --- foreign bodies --- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus --- Multidrugresistant gram negative bacteria --- climate change --- migration --- immigration policy --- children’s rights --- age assessments --- migration --- child-protection --- medico-legal ethics --- forensic evaluations --- limited English proficiency (LEP) --- linguistic minorities --- medical interpreters --- immigrants --- refugees --- Mayan --- youth --- refugee --- immigrant --- trauma --- health care --- children on the move --- refugees --- immigrants --- trauma informed care --- children’s rights --- oral health --- immigrant and refugee children --- culturally responsive care --- acculturation --- refugee --- gender --- trauma --- educational intervention --- Convention on the Rights of the Child --- child rights --- refugee --- asylum-seeking children --- child health --- child development --- Article 22 of the CRC --- children on the move --- refugee --- migrant --- children --- infectious diseases --- screening --- immunizations