Life Histories of Romania’s Looked-After Children: Discussion Mariela Neagu and Luciana Jinga

Two distinguished researchers with significant contributions to the field, Mariela Neagu and Luciana Jinga, are shading a different light on the Romanian children in care and the protection system - not only a subject of several international research studies, but also an intensely covered topic by Western media. Their interventions challenge stereotypes about children’s homes, foster care, international adoptions, bringing together sociological analysis, historical perspective, and the study of reforms in the field of institutional care with personal accounts of the children.

Luciana Jinga is a researcher and historian within the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and the Memory of the Romanian Exile in Bucharest since 2007. After a doctorate in co-supervision: Romania and France in 2011, she was hosted at the University d'Angers. Her research work focuses on gender and childhood under communist and post-communist regimes.

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[valeriecailean]

Hello and thank you for sharing this essential discussion point which has haunted Romania's recovery from the horrors of Ceauscescu's oppressive communism must continue to be brought to light until Romania finally heals from is terrifying past. I arrived in Romania in 1992 to help with voluntary work in the home run by Mother Teresa's Casa de Copii in Bucharest, Strada Milcov nr.3. Romania has to make peace with its past and, above all, realise that "she" has nothing to prove to the West, if not to assert her role as a valuable actor in global politics and as a valuable and equal European partner! Trăiască România! 🇹🇩🌟🇹🇩👍