'A trip organised for children is not a serious matter'? : summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)

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dc.contributor.authorVENKEN, Machteld
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-30T10:14:50Z
dc.date.available2025-06-30T10:14:50Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 14 November 2024
dc.description.abstractAlthough 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis 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.
dc.identifier.citationSpecial issue of Childhood, 2025, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 38-55
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/09075682241295455
dc.identifier.endpage55
dc.identifier.issn1461-7013
dc.identifier.issn0907-5682
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage38
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/92928
dc.identifier.volume32
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage
dc.relationSocial politics in European borderlands: A comparative and transnational study, 1870s-1990s
dc.relation.ispartofChildhood
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dc.subjectBelgium
dc.subjectBorders
dc.subjectChildren
dc.subjectGermany
dc.subjectWelfare
dc.title'A trip organised for children is not a serious matter'? : summer treatment camps for the Belgian-German borderlands (1919-1939)
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