%0 Journal Article
%T The vulnerable child in neoliberal contexts: the construction of children in the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection reforms
%A Emily Keddell
%J Childhood
%@ 1461-7013
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0907568217727591
%X Recent policy reforms have substantially changed state responses to child abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ). These reforms draw on two related discourses: vulnerability and social investment. Shaped by a neoliberal political context, these discourses influence constructions of children and parents. Children are constituted in individualistic ways; as vulnerable victims requiring intervention to optimise future functioning, dichotomised against their irresponsible and invulnerable parents. This has different consequences for children in and outside of the permanent fostercare system
%K Aotearoa New Zealand
%K child abuse
%K children
%K policy
%K social investment
%K vulnerable
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0907568217727591