Session 111:
Child fosterage and adoption
Chair: Vongai Kandiwa, Cornell University
Discussant: Marc Pilon, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
The status of West Africa’s fostered children (WITHDRAWN) Ama Baafra Abeberese, Columbia University ; Pearl Kyei, Population Council
An anthropological demographic evaluation of why Botswana’s national formal foster care program for orphans failed Bianca Dahl, Brown University
Who is “vulnerable”? School enrollment among foster-children and orphans in West & Southern Africa Emily Smith Greenaway, Pennsylvania State University ; Jessica Heckert, Pennsylvania State University
Factors of residential solidarity in Burkina Faso Sibiri Paul Sawadogo, Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD) ; Souonyir Rogatien Somda, Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie (INSD)
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