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Johanna Sköld

Professor, Head of Unit

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The Age of Inquiry

This pilot project is mapping the rise of inquiries into historical institutional child abuse to better understand the form and remit of different inquiries, and to illuminate global trends and national differences.
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New homes in Sweden

Approximately 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to Sweden during World War II. The project explores the socio-political circumstances of these transports. The findings concerns the reception of unaccompanied refugee children today.
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Limits of State Responsibility

Who is redressed when the state decides to deal with atrocities in the past? This project investigates the outcome of the Swedish financial redress scheme aimed at victims of historical institutional child abuse.

Inquiries into child abuse and neglect

Since the 1990s, a number of countries have established into historical child abuse and neglect from tens of thousands of care leavers. What do these inquiries tell?

Publications

2024

Judith Lind, Cecilia Lindgren, Johanna Sköld (2024) Är intresset för att bli familjehem tillräckligt stort? Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, Vol. 30, p. 881-895 Continue to DOI
Johanna Sköld, Bengt Sandin, Johanna Schiratzki (2024) Redressing or Excusing the Past?: The Evaluation of Sexual Child Abuse in the Swedish Redress Scheme for Historical Abuse in Out-of-Home Care Lived Institutions as History of Experience, p. 317-342 Continue to DOI
Katie Wright, Johanna Sköld, Malin Arvidsson, Shurlee Swain, Sari Braithwaite (2024) Adults Claiming Child Rights: Activism, Temporality and Abuse in Childhood Childhood, Youth and Activism: Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates, p. 37-54 Continue to DOI

2023

Johanna Sköld (2023) Samhällsvårdade barns villkor och erfarenheter Historielärarnas förenings årsskrift 2023: Tema: Barndomens och uppväxtens villkor i historien, p. 51-66
Johanna Sköld (2023) On the Challenge of Historicizing Violence: Conflicts in State Redress for Historical Abuse of Children in Out-of-home Care Totalitarianism and Democracy, Vol. 20, p. 75-91 Continue to DOI

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