Writer & Author
Writer & Author
Palgrave Macmillan published my PhD in 2016 and it was short-listed for being an innovative, definitive and solution focussed - which sounds like a list of ADHD traits!
Fostering Mixed Race Children: everyday experiences of foster care is the first qualitative research study about the lives of mixed race children in care. My second book was selected for the HarperCollins’ inaugural Author Academy. Hopefully, that book will be finished early next year.
Fostering Mixed Race Children
The ‘mixed race’ classification is known to be a factor of disadvantage in children’s social care and this fastest growing population is more likely than any other ethnic group to experience care admission. How does knowledge of ‘mixedness’ underpin policy and practice? How, when and why is the classification ‘mixed’ a disadvantage? Through narrative interviews with children currently in foster care, Fostering Mixed Race Children examines the impact of care processes on children’s everyday experiences. Peters shows how the ‘mixed race’ classification affects care admission, including both short and long term fostering and care leaving, and shapes the experiences of children in often adverse ways. The book moves away from the psychologising of ‘mixedness’ towards a much-needed sociological analysis of ‘mixedness’ and ‘mixing’ at the intersection of foster care processes.
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