Overview

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves are central actors engaged in contesting the meaning of childhood. Childhood is a field of conceptual, moral and political contestation, where the ‘battles’ may range from minor tensions and everyday negotiations of symbolic or practical importance involving a limited number of people, to open conflicts involving violence and law enforcement. The chapters demonstrate the importance of how we understand phenomena involving children: when children are trafficked, seeking refuge, taken into custody, active in gangs or inyouth organisations, and struggling with identity work. This book examines countries representing very different engagements and policies regarding migrancy and children. As a result, readers are presented with a comprehensive volume ideal for both the classroom and for policy-makers and practitioners. The chapters are written by experts in social anthropology, human geography, political science, sociology, and psychology.

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Author:   Marie Louise Seeberg ,  Elżbieta M. Goździak
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319830940

ISBN 10:   3319830945
Pages:   193
Publication Date:   13 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Micrancy: Marie Louis Seeberg and Elzbieta M. Gozdziak.- 2: Forced Victims of Willing Migrants? Contesting Assumptions about Child Trafficking: Elzbietz M. Gozdziak.- 3: Child Refugees and National Boundaries: Marie Louise Seeberg.- 4: South Sudanese Diaspora Children: Contested Notions of Childhood, Uprootedness, and Belonging among Young Refugees in the US: Marisa O. Ensor.- Lost between Protective Regimes: Roma in the Norwegian State: Ada I. Engebrigtsen.- 6: When Policy Meets Practice: A Study of Ethnic Community-Based Organisations for Children and Youth: Marianne Take and Guro Odegard.- 7: Identity Development among Youth of Vietnamese Descent in the Czech Republic: Andrea Svobodova and Eva Janska.- 8: Mixed Parentage: Negotiating Identity in Denmark: Helene Bang Appel and Rashmi Singla.- 9: “I Think of Myself as Norwegian, although I Feel that I am from Another Country.” Children Constructing Ethnic Diversity in Diverse Cultural Contexts: Mari Rysst.- 10: Looking Ahead: Contested Childhoods and Micracy: Marie Louise Seeberg and Elzbieta M. Gozdziak.–Index.

Reviews

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 In 10 extremely well-written chapters, these authors explore patterns of international migration, the politics and policies that drive them, and, most importantly, the effect of this transitory narrative on the identities of the migrant children themselves. ... This compelling text is a must read for anyone no longer satisfied with being merely a spectator in the migrant crisis unfolding in front of the world; it will help propel readers toward informed action. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. (J. C. Altman, Choice, Vol. 55 (1), September, 2017)

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