'They Put a Few Coins in Your Hand to Drop a Baby in You': A Study of Peacekeeper-fathered Children in Haiti
'They Put a Few Coins in Your Hand to Drop a Baby in You': A Study of Peacekeeper-fathered Children in Haiti
复制标题
DOI：
10.1080/13533312.2019.1698297
复制
发表时间：
2019-12-11
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Bartels, Susan
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Lee, Sabine;Bartels, Susan
许多和平支助行动都面临联合国人员对当地社区成员实施性剥削和性虐待的指控。其中一些亲密关系导致了孩子的出生，但关于怀孕和生育这些孩子的妇女和女孩的经历，几乎没有经验数据。我们分析了265个来自海地社区成员的自我解释的叙述，这些叙述是关于联合国人员的父亲和当地妇女或女孩所生的孩子。混合方法的结果突出了三个重要主题：（a）贫穷是促成维和人员性剥削和性虐待的一个关键的根本因素;（B）遣返涉案维和人员往往使妇女和儿童陷入更严重的贫穷;（c）与皮肤白皙的维和人员保持亲密关系并生下皮肤白皙的孩子有时被认为是可取的。这些数据突出表明，联海稳定团人员的子女通常是在经济极端贫困的环境中长大的，往往无法获得教育和其他基本服务，而这些服务将使他们能够打破贫穷的循环。虽然本分析中确定的首要需求是财政需求，但有必要对儿童本身进行更多的研究，以确定其他需求，并为旨在改善儿童福祉的政策和方案提供信息。
Many peace support operations have faced allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse perpetrated by UN personnel against members of local communities. Some of these intimate relations result in children being born but there is little empirical data on the experiences of women and girls who conceive and bear these children. We analyse 265 self interpreted narratives from community members in Haiti about children fathered by UN personnel and born to local women or girls. The mixed methods results highlight three important themes: (a) poverty is a key underlying factor contributing to sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeeping personnel, (b) the repatriation of implicated peacekeepers often leaves the woman and child in exacerbated poverty, and (c) intimate relations with fair-skinned peacekeepers and having fair-skinned children are sometimes perceived as desirable. The data highlight that children fathered by MINUSTAH personnel are typically being raised in settings of extreme economic deprivation and are often denied access to education and other basic services that would enable them to break the cycle of poverty. While the overarching need identified in this analysis is financial, additional research with the children themselves in warranted to identify other needs and to inform policies and programmes intended to improve their well-being.