Bauer Michelle E E, Al-Hajj Samar, Presser Elise, Zahwe Amin, Faraj Sary, Pike Ian
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Sociol Health Illn. 2025 Feb;47(2):e70007. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.70007.
A wealth of scholarship demonstrates the developmental benefits of risky play for children. However, this scholarship has overwhelmingly focused on the experiences of children and their caregivers from Euro-Western nations. It is imperative to explore child and caregiver perspectives on child risk, injury and play in communities where children experience a disproportionate burden of injuries resulting from play such as in refugee communities. For this research, we focused on Syrian refugee camps (n = 3) and villages (n = 4) across Lebanon and conducted semi-structured interviews with children (n = 79) and caregivers (n = 56) to explore perspectives on child risk, injury and play. Our approach was informed through tenets of post-structural feminist theory, and a critical discourse analysis was conducted. Two major discourses were identified: (1) children engage in dangerous and injurious play; and (2) environmental and social barriers limit play opportunities. Findings suggest that the children often experienced discrimination and severe injuries as a result of engagement in play which resulted in long-term financial and physical burdens. These findings challenge Euro-Western risky play paradigms and inform injury prevention and play scholarship with the voices of families from equity-deserving communities.
大量学术研究表明，冒险性游戏对儿童的发展有益。然而，这些研究绝大多数都聚焦于欧美西方国家儿童及其照顾者的经历。在儿童因玩耍而承受不成比例的伤害负担的社区，比如难民社区，探究儿童及其照顾者对儿童风险、伤害和玩耍的看法势在必行。在这项研究中，我们聚焦于黎巴嫩各地的3个叙利亚难民营和4个村庄，对79名儿童和56名照顾者进行了半结构化访谈，以探究他们对儿童风险、伤害和玩耍的看法。我们的研究方法基于后结构女性主义理论的原则，并进行了批判性话语分析。研究确定了两个主要话语：（1）儿童参与危险和有害的游戏；（2）环境和社会障碍限制了玩耍机会。研究结果表明，儿童因参与游戏经常遭受歧视和重伤，这带来了长期的经济和身体负担。这些研究结果挑战了欧美西方的冒险性游戏范式，并以应得公平的社区家庭的声音为伤害预防和游戏研究提供了参考。
