Narratives on leaving care in Switzerland: Biographies and discourses in the 20th century.
Research on institutional care and its long‐term effect on life trajectories provides crucial and sometimes unexpected insights. In a qualitative study in Switzerland, we have conducted 37 narrative interviews with people who experienced residential care between 1950 and 1990. The analysis was based...
| Published in: | Child & Family Social Work Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 248 - 258 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2021
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