Refugee youth : migration, justice and urban space / edited by Mattias de Backer [and 7 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Backer, Mattias de, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugee children--Social conditions.

Refugee children.

Teenage refugees--Social conditions.

Teenage refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Telling the stories of young refugees in a range of international settings, this book explores how newcomers navigate urban spaces and negotiate multiple injustices in their everyday lives, giving voice to refugee youth from a wide variety of social backgrounds.

Contents:

Front Cover

Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introducing Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space

Introduction

Introducing refugee youth

Migration

Justice

Urban space

Conclusion

Note

References

2 Storying Belonging, Enacting Citizenship? (Dis)articulations of Belonging in a Community Theatre Project with Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Leipzig, Germany

Theoretical discussion: stories/storying in participatory theatre's negotiation of citizenship and belonging

Methodological approach and empirical material

Empirical analysis: bringing our personal stories on stage?

Silence as disarticulation/the withdrawal of stories

Silence as articulation/the return of stories

Reflection of my presence and positionality within the project

3 Jackets and Jewellery: Racialised Dispossession and Struggles over Public Space in Denmark

Politics of dispossession

'Jackets, watches and mobile phones'

'Do you see me as …?'

4 Venezuelan Refugee Youth and Brazilian Schooling: The Individual between Languages and Spaces

On the methodological paths of research

The displacement and the context of arrival in Brazil and Pernambucco

Refugee/migrant youth and the right to education

Migrant youth and the paths of school integration

Notes

5 The Inclusionary Potential and Spatial Boundaries of (Semi-)Public Space: Refugee Youth's Everyday Experiences in the Urban Fabric of Amsterdam

Building new connections through (semi-)public space

Methods.

Refugee youth in public space: an insecure beginning

Strategies to feel more comfortable to navigate public space

Young refugees' use of public and semi-public spaces

Encounters in (semi-)public spaces

6 Navigating 'Purdah' Culture in Urban Space: The Restricted Lives of Young Married Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia

The study

Refugees in Malaysia: a background

The purdah culture

Fleeing into marriage

Confinement after marriage

Restricted from school

Access to public health facilities

7 Inclusive Urban Planning and Public Space for Refugee Youth in Pursuit of a Just City in Amman, Jordan

The intercultural, inclusive and just city - more than 'just' public space

Methodology

In pursuit of an inclusive city

8 Sense of Belonging among Tibetan Refugees in India: A Case Study of the Bylakuppe Settlement in Karnataka, India

Tibetan migration towards India

Conceptualisation of belonging

Study site: the Bylakuppe settlement

Participant recruitment

Observation and interviews

Data analysis

Senses of belonging of Tibetan youth

Social capital

Economic integration

Receiving society's receptivity

Exposure to host society

9 Negotiating Identity in Urban Space: Everyday Geographies of Syrian Students in Istanbul

Socioeconomic backgrounds of Syrian students

Methodological approach

Negotiating identities in various spaces in Istanbul

Segregated spaces

Comfort zones

Judicial spaces

Private spaces

Cooperational space

Open spaces

Social functions of the spaces

Exclusion spaces

Inclusion spaces

References.

10 'You're Judged a Lot': Australian Sudanese and South Sudanese Youths' Perspectives on Their Experiences in Public Spaces

Method

Findings

Racial identity

Group identity

Racial profiling

11 Hair Salons as 'Private-Public Spaces': Exploring the Experiences of Young Migrant Women in an Urban Township in South Africa

The urban context and hidden spaces

Securitised migration and spaces of fear

Research in a hair salon: private-public spaces

Research approach

Migrants, young women and mothers: invisible spaces

Support systems: spaces of relative safety and partial justice

12 Emotion and Spatial Belonging: Exploring Young Migrant Men's Emotional Geographies in Cork, Ireland

Emotional geographies of home: a theoretical framework

Public space and home

Emotions and home

Ambiguous emotions of home

Negative emotions about home

Emotions about home in the public space

Emotions and translocalism: ambiguous feelings

Emotions and future homes: hope

Emotions and current homes: alienation and little comforts

13 Homemaking through Music in Urban Africa: Creating Opportunities as a Refugee and a Migrant in Kinshasa and Dar es Salaam

Theoretical framework

Methods and trajectories

Leaving a conflict-afflicted home

Leaving Butembo

Leaving Bangui

The mega-city as a site for opportunities

Slam poetry festivals in Kinshasa

Music ministry and music engineering in Dar es Salaam

14 Planetary Listening

15 Refugee Youth: Politics, Publicness and Visibility

Politics

Publicness

Visibility

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5292-2104-8

1-5292-2102-1

1-5292-2103-X

OCLC:

1373018164