https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/o:5255 Kurak: Glimpse into social protection measures of children in Kyrgyzstan and understanding institutionalisation practices Gulzar, Muratalyeva Muratalyeva Gulzar Ferreira, Ana Ana Ferreira 0000-0003-2170-4122 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Schreder, Guenther Guenther Schreder Universität für Weiterbildung Krems text eng Social policies on children´s protection have been analyzed and put into focal attention for decades in the academy and international relations practices. It is especially imperative within the existence of major power actors in the form of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and UNICEF, the infusion of children´s social policy protection as a global policy in other countries. The main provision of protecting and classifying the vulnerability of children coupled with the protection of families also has been one of the main prominences within the latterly mentioned frameworks of social policies. This current thesis concentrates on highlighting the measures of protection and care of children at risk through Kyrgyzstan’s state established policies by also taking into account the imposition of external actors’ policy implications on the de-institutionalisation models. It investigates the essential problem gaps and overlooks within state policies basing itself on four main categories– Intra-institutional partnerships, familialisation, the notion of vulnerability, and comprehensive child development – to systemically direct the attention on how each part is formulated, orchestrated, and interpreted contrasted with the experts’ perceptions derived from the field. The coloniality of knowledge and methodologies imposed onto third-world countries’ policy practices is highlighted through the historical Soviet and Tsarist path, current power games within Eurocentric practices, and Kyrgyz state notions on how children´s vulnerabilities are defined and protected. Additionally, the imposed modernisation and transitional patterns are systemically investigated regarding the matter of de-institutionalisation practices to subsequently explore pre-existing alternative, local forms of protection and care towards children. Vulnerable children de-institutionalisation social policy modernisation transition alternative protection global policy imposition of policies coloniality of knowledge child protection http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/api/object/o:5255/download https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/o:5266 application/pdf 2.50 MB 2025