Dr. Ingrid Söderlind is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social and Welfare Studies, and Docent (Associate Professor) in Child Studies at the Thematic Department Linköping University (Sweden). She received her Ph.D. in Child Studies from Linköping University. Her research interests include social child welfare, orphanages and foster care, children’s citizenship, childhood and work, and child evacuations during WWII.
2015 1-4955-0342-9 An historical and sociological examination of case studies from five girls orphanages in Sweden focusing on how the lives and futures of girls were shaped by those institutions from the late nineteenth-century until World War II.