Biography
Charles Watters is currently Senior Lecturer in Mental health at the University of Kent, UK. He is also: Director of the European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care (MASC); Convenor of the European MA in Migration, Mental Health and Social Care; Convenor of the PhD programme in Migration Studies; Co-Principal Investigator ESRC Identities and Social Action programme. Identities in Transition: a longitudinal study of immigrant children.
Overseas he is a member of the International Faculty for the Culture and Mental Health Services Research Strategic Training programme, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; and Visiting Professor, University of Brasilia, Brazil
‘Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon epitomizes the positive contributions of the recent scholarship on refugees. While centered on the experience of refugee children, Watters’ book provides significant insights into a wide array of issues relevant to contemporary refugees, more generally … [This book] is a thought-provoking and sophisticated resource for scholars and practitioners interested in the experience of forced migrants in general and refugee youth in particular.’ - Contemporary Sociology
