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Maria-Carmen Pantea

 

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  Book:

 

  Pantea, M. (2008) Copiii care muncesc in Romania (Engl. Working Children in Romania). Cluj, Cluj

           University Press. ISBN 978-973. 619-785-6. More…

 

 

 

  Journal articles and book chapters:

 

Pantea, M. (Forthcoming, 2012) “Transitional Education for Child Labourers. A Review of Residential

Bridge Camps for Mainstreaming Ex-Child Labourers into the Formal Education System” in the

            Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work. 9(3). Taylor and Francis.

 

Pantea, M (Forthcoming, 2012) “Negotiating change: Young students doing voluntary work in

Romania” in Jason A.L., Concepción N. and Mrnjaus, K. (Eds). Citizenship, Democracy, and

the University: Theory and Practice in Europe and North America.

 

Pantea, M. (Forthcoming, 2012) “Comments on CRC concluding observations on Romania” in Carlos

            Villagrassa (Ed). Children’s Rights in Euro Mediterranean region. Barcelona: Huygens

Editorial.

 

Pantea, M. (Forthcoming, 2013) „Romania” in Robert E. Emery (Ed.) Cultural Sociology of Divorce.

SAGE.

 

Pantea, M. (in print) „Negotiating ‘children’s best interests’ in the context of parental

            migration” in Hanne Warming (Ed). Trust dynamics in the governance of children and youth –

            a European perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Pantea, M. (2012) „Social ties at work:  Roma migrants and the community dynamics” in Ethnic and

Racial Studies. IFirst

 

Pantea, M. (2012) From ‘making a living’ to ‘getting ahead’: Roma women’s experiences

of migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 38(8)Special Issue ‘The Roma in the

new EU: policies, frames and everyday experiences’. iFirst.

 

Pantea, M. (2012) „The changing nature of volunteering and the cross-border mobility.

Where does learning come from?” in Studies in Continuing Education. Ifirst.

 

Pantea, M (2012). ‘Young volunteers’ perspectives on their interactions with

adults in position to facilitate their participation’ in Baraldi, C. and Vittorio Iervese (Eds).

Participation, facilitation and mediation. Perspectives on children and young people

involvement in social contexts. pp. 161-179. Routledge. Series: Routledge Research in

Education.

 

Pantea, M. (2012) “Grandmothers as main caregivers in the context of parental migration” in the

            European Journal of Social Work special issue ‘Social work, older people and migration’ 15(1):

63-80.

 

Pantea, M. (2012) “’I have a child and a garden’: Young people’s experiences of care

giving in transnational families” in Journal of Youth Studies. 15(2): 241-256.

 

Pantea, M. (2011) “Young people’s perspectives on changing families’ dynamics of

            power in the context of parental migration“ in YOUNG 19(4) 375–395.

 

Pantea, M. (2011) Experiencing Social Transition at the Workplace: Hard to Reach

Youth and Their Social Capital. CAS Working Paper Series No. 4/2011: Sofia 2011. Shaken

Order: Authority and Social Trust in Post-Communist Societies (Case Studies in Law), a project of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.

 

  Pantea, M. (2011). Entries: “Adolescence”, “Child Labor”, “Migrant workers”, “Romania” in Zeiss

            Stange et al. (Eds): The Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. SAGE. More…

 

  Pantea, M. (2011). “What does it take to volunteer? Benefits and social costs of volunteering for

             disadvantaged young people” in Christiana Bagusat et al. (Eds.): Decent Work and

             Unemployment. Perspectives on Social Ethics. Wien–Berlin–Münster: Lit Verlag. pp. 105-129. 

             More…

 

  Pantea, M. (2010) “Romania” in Encyclopedia of Motherhood, Sage. More…

 

  Pantea, M. (2009) “Child Labour in Romania” in The World of Child Labor: An Historical and

             RegionalSurvey, Hugh D. Hindman (Ed.), M.E. Sharpe Inc., New York. More…

 

  Pantea, M. (2009) “Performing the border of child labour: Roma working children”, in Romani Studies

              5, Vol. 19, No. 1, 19–48. Liverpool University Presss. [pdf]

 

  Pantea, M. and Roth, M. (2008). “Challenges in Addressing Child Abuse and Neglect among Roma

              Children in Romania” in ISPCAN's World Perspectives on Child Abuse: an International

              Resource Book, 8th edition.

 

  Pantea, M. (2008) Copiii care muncesc in Romania (Engl. Working Children in Romania). Cluj, Cluj

                   University Press. More…

 

  Pantea, M. (2007) “Current challenges in analyzing child labor in Romania”, in Human Rights of

              Children. An appraisal of the Children's Rights Convention. Theory meets practice, Intersentia.

              Pp. 309-332.

 

  Pantea, M. (2007). Combating Roma child labor through education in Romania: Challenges and the

             need for child-centered Roma policies. CEU Center for Policy Studies. More…

 

 

  Pantea, M. (2008) Copiii care muncesc in Romania (Engl. Working Children in Romania). Cluj, Cluj

                   University Press. ISBN 978-973. 619-785-6 (570 pg. in Romanian).

 

 

 

The book explores children’s own perspectives on their working lives, by using Grounded Theory principles. Based on the interpretation of data collected by participatory methodologies from approximately 40 children and 20 parents, the book argues that work is often an adaptive response to structural constrains, rather than a value in itself. Despite its wide use and statistical function, the description of children’s work as divided in several categories (agriculture, industry, services, constructions), risks homogenizing the variety of experiences children have inside the very same ‘category’. Most of the times, the work they undertake is fluid and contextual, temporary or occasional. Under these circumstances, future data collection needs to rethink the system of data collection that resembles the adult labour market inquiries.

 

 

 

 

  Pantea, M. (2009). Gender Mainstreaming assessment of the National Action Plans for Decade for Roma

                    Inclusion. Report produced with support from the United Nations Development Fund for Women

                    (UNIFEM). (105 pg).

 

 

The analysis was undertaken in the context of the Slovak Presidency of the International Programme of the Decade of Roma Inclusion that provided the background for a revision of the National Action Plans (NAPs). The countries taking part in the Decade at the time of the study were Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain. Slovenia had observer status.

 

Aims of the study: to provide a gender mainstreaming assessment of the NAPs, to formulate a proposal for gender-sensitive and intersectionality-sensitive NAP progress indicators and to summarize recommendations to make the existing NAPs gender sensitive. The study is based on quantitative and qualitative data analysis, through a combination of desk review and consultations with teams at the UNIFEM CEE office and UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre.

 

 

Pantea, M. (2007). Combating Roma child labor through education in Romania: Challenges and the

                  need for child-centered Roma policies. CEU Center for Policy Studies. (70 pg)

 

 

The policy study advances the argument that in order to combat Roma child labor, there is a need for governmental policies on quality education. It is based on a double level of research: 1). at the grassroots level, exploring Roma children and their families’ own perspectives on children’s work and schooling; 2). at the institutional level, framing the current level of child labor policies. The solutions the paper proposes are improved quality of education; employment opportunities in communities with high risk of exclusion and poverty, community mobilization and rising awareness campaigns for challenging the social acceptability of child labor both for Roma and for majority population.