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Child migration in Africa / Iman Hashim and Dorte Thorsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hashin, Iman, author.
- Thorsen, Dorte, author.
- Series:
- Africa now (Zed Books)
- Africa now
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unaccompanied immigrant children--Africa.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children.
- Physical Description:
- 150 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's voluntary migration and their experiences of it. Part of the groundbreaking Africa Now series, Child Migration in Africa is an important and timely contribution to an under-researched area.
- Contents:
- About the authors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: interrogating childhood and migration
- 2 Contexts of migration
- 3 Choosing to move: the reasons for rural children's migration
- 4 Journeys and arrivals: introductions to new social worlds
- 5 Navigating migrant life: processes of constructing identities
- 6 Moving on
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-144) and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613070951
- 9781350218994
- 1350218995
- 9781780322353
- 1780322356
- 9781283070959
- 1283070952
- 9781848134577
- 1848134576
- OCLC:
- 719415390
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