'A trip organised for children is not a serious matter'? : summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)
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Special issue of Childhood, 2025, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 38-55
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VENKEN, Machteld, ‘A trip organised for children is not a serious matter’? : summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939), Special issue of Childhood, 2025, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 38-55, [SOCIOBORD] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92928
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Although the children whose rural homelands transitioned from German to Belgian state sovereignty following the First World War were not the typical demographic targeted for preventive air treatments against tuberculosis, they were overrepresented in treatment camps in both Belgium and Germany. Nation-state representatives provided public and private (although partly state subsidized) treatment camps to restore the physical vitality, ethical integrity, and national allegiances of the minors. The parallel competitive offer took the form of a cross-border mixed economy of child welfare. Borderland residents either opportunistically supported the Belgian or German initiatives, or provided their own alternatives to protect their children from indoctrination.
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Published online: 14 November 2024
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This research was supported by the project SOCIOBORD: 'Social Politics in European Borderlands. A Comparative and Transnational Study, 1870s-1990s' funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement 882549.