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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

2023

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
Sabine Gruber, Kristina  Gustafsson, Johanna Sköld (2023) Förord: Deltagande forskning i socialt arbete Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, Vol. 29, p. 259-268 Continue to DOI
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2022

Johanna Sköld (2022) Ny bok: Jacob Knage Rasmussen (2021) Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, Vol. 29, p. 409-413 Continue to DOI
Johanna Sköld, Ingrid Söderlind (2022) "Vi måste rädda barnen": Svenska hjälpkommittéer för krigsdrabbade barn i andra länder under 1930- och 1940-talen ["We must save the children": Swedish relief committees helping war children abroad in the 1930s and 1940s] Historisk Tidskrift, Vol. 142, p. 533-563

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