“Out-of-home” placement ? Arrangements and supports of kinship care for the aboriginal children in the tribes: A study focuses on a Bunun family

• Main Authors: Yi-Hua Chen, 陳怡樺
• Other Authors: Yi-Chang Chan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xeh45c

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 103 === 　The study focuses on kinship care for the aboriginal children in the tribes. The purpose of this study is to understand the experience at care placement of kinship care family and children, care pattern and transitions of children after placing, how they use resources, and to explore the experience at “home” and “family” of kinship carers and children. A Bunun family in Nantou County was taken as a case study. In-depth interview and participant observation were adopted, and a service program for children related to the study was also one of methods in collecting data. The main findings are as follows: Placement intervention of the state and kinship care service are accepted by kinship care family ,because placing the children at kinship family in the tribes measure up to their expectation. Besides,the state grants kinship care family guardianship. Even though children’ alcoholic mother opposed. In addition, placement resources and sevice provided were regarded as real assistance to care for the children. In kinship care family’s opinion, modern Bunun families take traditional thoughts and actual relationships both into account on care placement for the children needed. The children’s cognition of significant others aren’t limited within parents and relatives. Their standpoints of definition of kinship carer are different from the mainstream society or the public sector. Kinship care family provides stable base for the living and development of the children in placement. Regarding major care family as the core, the major care family connects and extends supports from extended family and the tribes that shapes a cooperative network for caring the children. Despite of the fact that the children moved from original home to residential home, they still live in near Bunun tribes. Children stay in similar extended family, the tribes and ethnicity such as to stay “home”, which meaning is more broader. The similar living experience and lasing social relationship contribute to adapting to new environments well. At present, the children view residential home as their home, and they also hope for reunion with parents in the future. In the understanding of the context that kinship care family, the children and their original family are all in the same extended family, the kinship carers in a position of a relative to supply the deficiency of original family's function at the present stage. And they are willing to care for the children before reunion with their parents. In addition, the kinship carers play a part in linking and keeping the relationships between the children and the relatives naturally, including their parents. The children and their mother all have desire and action to keep in touch with each other. Kinship family looks positively upon their interactions, but social workers oppose on account of possible risks and negative influence on the children. In different roles’ expectation, the issue about children and mother’s meeting is still a challenge. As for the kinship family, they also express their concern and keep on communicating with social worker to find the more appropriate way for children and mother’s meeting.