Out-of-home care among immigrant children in Sweden: A national cohort study

International Journal of Social Welfare

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-311

  Vinnerljung, Bo ^a,b,c   Franzén, Eva ^a   Gustafsson, Björn ^d,e   Johansson, Ing Marie ^d  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Child welfare; Childcare; Cohort study; Foster care; Immigrant; Migrant epidemiology; Residential care

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049087734     PISSN: 13696866     EISSN: 14682397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2008.00568.x     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Allertsen L, Kalve T (2006). Invandrarbarn i barnevernet [Immigrant children and child welfare services]. Oslo, Statistics Norway, Rapport 2006:19.
2. Andershed H, Andershed A-K (2005). Normbrytande beteende i barndomen: vad säger forskningen? [Disruptive behaviour in children: A research review]. Stockholm, Gothia/IMS/SiS.
3. Barn R (1993). Black children in the public care system. London, Batsford.
4. Barn R (1999). Working with black children and adolescents in need. London, BAAF.
5. Barth RB (2001). Linking our circles. In: Dominelli L, Lorenz W, Soydan S, eds, Beyond racial divides. Ethnicities in social work practice, pp. 137-146. Aldershot, Ashgate.
6. Barth RB, Blackwell D (1998). Death rates among California's foster care and former foster care population. Children and Youth Services Review 20: 577-604.
7. Barth RB, Webster D, Lee S (2002). Adoption of American Indian children: Implications for implementing the Indian Child Welfare and Adoption and Safe Families acts. Children and Youth Services Review 24: 139-158.
8. Bask M (2005). Welfare Problems and Social Exclusion among Immigrants in Sweden. European Sociological Review 21: 73-89.
9. Bebbington A, Miles J (1989). The background of children who enter local authority care, British Journal of Social Work 19: 349-368.
10. Berger L (2004). Income, family structure and child maltreatment risk. Children and Youth Services Review 26: 725-748.
11. Blackstock C (2003). First Nations child and family services: Restoring peace and harmony in First Nations communities. In: Kufeldt K, McKenzie B, eds, Child Welfare: Connecting research, policy and practice, pp. 331-342. Waterloo, On, Wilfried Laurier University Press.
12. Brooks Johnson B (1981). The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978: implications for practice. Child Welfare 60: 435-446.
13. Carlsson M, Rooth D-O (2007). Evidence of discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data. Journal of Labor Economics 14: 716-729.
14. Colton M, Hellinckx W (1994). Residential and foster care in the European Community: Current trends in policy and practice. British Journal of Social Work 24: 559-576.
15. Cross TA, Earle KA, Simmons D (2000). Child abuse and neglect in Indian Country: Policy issues. Families and Society 81: 49-58.
16. Duncan G, Brooks-Gunn J (eds) (1997). Consequences of growing up poor. New York, Russell Sage Foundation.
17. Fanshel D (1972). Far from the reservation. The transracial adoption of American Indian children. Metuchen, NJ, The Scarecrow Press.
18. Franzén E, Vinnerljung B, Hjern A (in press). The epidemiology of out-of-home care for children and youth: A national cohort study. British Journal of Social Work in press.
19. Grinde TV (2003). Nordisk barnevern: Likheter i lovgivning -forskjeller i praxsis [Nordic child welfare: Similar laws - differenses in practice]. Oslo, Nova.
20. Gustafsson B, Zheng J (2006). Earnings of Immigrants in Sweden 1978 to 1999. International Migration 44: 79-117.
21. Haebich A (2000). Broken circle. Fragmenting indigenous families 1800-2000. Freemantle, Freemantle Arts Centre Press.
22. Hand C (2006). An Ojibwe perspective on the welfare of children: Lessons of the past and visions for the future. Children and Youth Services Review 28: 40-46.
23. Hessle S (1988). Familjer i sönderfall [Disintegrating families]. Gothenburg, Norsteds.
24. Hessle S, Vinnerljung B (1999). Child welfare in Sweden - an overview. Stockholm, Stockholm University, Stockholm Studies in Social Work #15.
25. Hines A, Lemon K, Wyatt P, Merdinger J (2004). Factors related to the disproportionate involvement of children of color in the child welfare system: A review and emerging themes. Children and Youth Services Review 26: 507-527.
26. Hjern A, Vinnerljung B, Lindblad F (2004). Avoidable mortality among child welfare recipients and intercountry adoptees: A national cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 58: 412-417.
27. Höglund-Davila E, Landgren-Möller E (1991) Vilka barn omhändertas av samhället? [Which children are taken into societal care?]. In: Qvist J, ed., Livsförloppsanalys, pp. 45-65, Stockholm, SCB, Bakgrundsmaterial från demografiska funktionen, 1991:2.
28. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1997). Bringing them home. Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of aboriginal and Torres Strait islander children from their families. Sydney, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
29. Ince L (1998). Making it alone: A study of the care experiences of young people. London, BAAF.
30. Ingoldsby EM, Shaw DS (2002). Neighborhood contextual factors and early-starting antisocial pathways. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 5: 21-55.
31. Johnstson P (1983). Native children and the child welfare system. Toronto, Canadian Council on Social Development.
32. Kristinsdottir G (1991). Child welfare and professionalization. Academic thesis. Umeå, UmeåUniversity, Social Work Studies #15.
33. Lindsey D (1991). Factors affecting the foster care placement decision: an analysis of national survey data. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 62: 272 -281.
34. Lindsey D (1992) Adequacy of income and the foster care placement decision: Using an odds ratio approach to examine client variables. Social Work Research & Abstracts 28: 29 -36.
35. Lu YE, Landsverk J, Ellis-Macleod E, Newtin R, Ganger W, Johnson I (2004). Race ethnicity and case outcomes in child protective services. Children and Youth Services Review 26: 447 -461.
36. Lundström T, Vinnerljung B (2001). Omhändertaganden av barn under 1990-talet [Placements of children in out-of-home care during the 1990s]. In: Szebehely M, ed. Välfärdstjänster i omvandling [Welfare services in transition], pp. 289-336, Stockholm, Ministry of Social Affairs, SOU 2001:52.
37. MacEachron A, Gustavsson N, Cross S, Lewis A (1996). The effectiveness of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. Social Service Review 70: 451 -463.
38. Mannes M (1995). Factors and events leading to the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Child Welfare 74: 265 -282.
39. McDaniel M, Slack, KS (2005). Major life events and the risk of a child maltreatment investigation. Children and Youth Services Review 27: 171 -195.
40. Milloy J (1999). A national crime. The Canadian government and the residential school system 1979 to 1986. Winnipeg, The University of Manitoba Press.
41. Österberg T, Gustafsson B (2006). Disability Pension among Immigrants to Sweden, Social Science and Medicine 63: 805-816.
42. Peeples F, Loeber R (1994). Do individual factors and neighborhood context explain ethnic differences in juvenile delinquency? Journal of Quantitative Criminology 10: 141 -158.
43. Ringbäck Weitoft G, Hjern A, Batljan I, Vinnerljung B (2008). Health and social outcomes among children in low-income families and families receiving social assistance - a Swedish national cohort study. Social Science & Medicine 66: 14 -30.
44. Sabol W, Coulton C, Polousky E (2004). Measuring child maltreatment in communities: A life table approach. Child Abuse and Neglect 28: 967 -983.
45. Skytte M (2002). Anbringelse af etniske minoritetsbarn [Ethnic minority children in care]. Diss. Lund, Lund University, Lund Dissertations in Social Work #11.
46. Smith CF, Devore W (2004). African American children in the child welfare and kinship system: From exclusion to over inclusion. Children and Youth Services Review 26: 427 -446.
47. Socialstyrelsen (1995). Invandrarbarn i familjehem [Immigrant children in foster home care]. Stockholm, Socialstyrelsen (National Board of Health and Welfare), SoS-rapport 1995:7.
48. Socialstyrelsen (1998). Individ och familjeomsorgens arbete med ungdomar [Child welfare agencies'work with youth]. Stockholm, Socialstyrelsen, SoS-rapport 1998:5.
49. Socialstyrelsen (2006a). Barn och unga -insatser år 2005 [Children and young persons subjected to measures 2005]. Stockholm, Socialstyrelsen, Statistik Socialtjänst 2006:9.
50. Socialstyrelsen (2006b). Social rapport [Social Report]. Stockholm, Socialstyrelsen.
51. Statistics Sweden (2006). Barn och deras familjer [Children and their families]. Stockholm, SCB, Demografiska Rapporter 2006:3.
52. Thoburn J, Chand A, Procter J (2004). Child welfare services for minority ethnic families. The research reviewed. London, Jessica Kingsley.
53. Thoburn J, Norford L, Rashid SP (2000). Permanent family placement for children of minority ethnic origin. London, Jessica Kingsley.
54. TrocméN, Knoke D, Blackstock C (2004). Pathways to the overrepresentation of aboriginal children in Canada's child welfare system. Social Service Review 78: 577 -600.
55. Vinnerljung B (1996a). Hur vanligt är det att ha varit fosterbarn? En deskriptiv epidemiologisk studie. [How common is it to have been in care? An epidemiological study of foster care]. Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift 3: 166-179.
56. Vinnerljung B (1996b). Svensk forskning om fosterbarnsvård [Swedish foster care research], Stockholm, Liber Utbildning/CUS.
57. Vinnerljung B, Franzén E, Danielsson M. (2007). Teenage parenthood among child welfare clients -a Swedish national cohort study. Journal of Adolescence 30: 97-116.
58. Vinnerljung B, Hjern A, Lindblad F (2006). Suicide attempts and severe psychiatric morbidity among former child welfare clients - a national cohort study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47: 723-733.
59. Vinnerljung B, Hjern A, Öman M (2004). Återplaceringar av barn i dygnsvård (II): Vad ökar eller minskar risken? [Replacements of children in out-of-home care (II): What increases or reduces risks?]. Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift 11: 150 -167.
60. Vinnerljung B, Öman M, Gunnarson T (2004). Återplacering av barn i dygnsvård (I): Hur vanligt är det? [Replacements of children in out-of-home care (I): How common is it?]. Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift 11: 54-75.
61. Vinnerljung B, Ribe M (2001). Mortality after care among young adult foster children in Sweden. International Journal of Social Welfare 10: 164-173.
62. Vinnerljung B, Sallnäs M, Kyhle Westermark P (2001). Sammanbrott vid placeringar av tonåringar i dygnsvård [Breakdown of teenage placements in out-of-home care]. Stockholm, National Board of Health and Welfare.
63. Wulczyn F, Lery B (2007). Racial disparity in foster care admissions. Chicago, Chapin Hall Center for Children.