From poverty to wellbeing: Children as subjects of sociological research and emerging agents on the policy arena in Estonia
From poverty to wellbeing: Children as subjects of sociological research and emerging agents on the policy arena in Estonia

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present a retrospective of child poverty research in Estonia: how it has developed from the social and political acknowledgement of poverty as a social issue in the early 1990s onwards, and how child poverty research has contributed to the development of political thought. The paper follows the use of a new paradigm of childhood research, and revisits the methodological approaches and main research findings that have enhanced the understanding of children as a new policy interest group in politics.

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