Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy : Migration, Governance, Identities / edited by Marie Louise Seeberg, Elżbieta M. Goździak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seeberg, Marie Louise., Editor.

Contributor:

Seeberg, Marie Louise, Editor.

Goździak, Elżbieta M., Editor.

Series:

IMISCOE Research Series, 2364-4095

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

School psychology.

Political science.

Human Migration.

School Psychology.

Political Science.

Local Subjects:

Human Migration.

School Psychology.

Political Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This 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 in youth 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.

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.

Notes:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode

ISBN:

9783319446103

331944610X

OCLC:

1066188215

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access