Child and Youth Migration

This edited collection captures the intersection between migration, mobility and childhood studies. Contributors explore under-researched child and youth short-term and micro movements within major migration fluxes that occur in response to migration and global change.

The interesting mix of theory and empirical evidence, such as the arguably under-researched transnational migration corridors (e.g. Africa-Europe), could be useful to scholars in migration, childhood and development studies as it can stimulate new thinking on how we imagine children, adolescents and youth within the transnational migration social space. Ultimately this book is recommended because it is well written and in line with the stated aim of the editors. (Michael Boampong, Children's Geographies, Vol. 16 (2), April, 2017)

Bringing discussions on transnational, indigenous, e-diasporic and forced migrant youth together, the anthology is strongly recommended for students and scholars interested in learning how to thoroughly question predominant static notions of childhood and adolescence as a chronological, strictly age-bound universal social category. The book is also recommended to those interested in adopting a child or youth-centred epistemological and methodological research approach. (Koen Leurs, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 7 (1), 2017)

Autorentext
Fina Carpena-Mendez, Oregon State University, USA Neil Howard, European University Institute, Italy Rajith W. D. Lakshman, University of Sussex, UK Sunethra Perera, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Samantha Punch, Stirling University, UK Elodie Razy, University of Liege, Belgium Pinnawala Sangasumana, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka Dorte Thorsen, University of Sussex, UK Diana Yeh, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Inhalt

1. Complex Migrations, Migrant Child and Family Life Trajectories and Globalization; Angela Veale and Giorgia Donà 2. Young Migrant Trajectories from Bolivia to Argentina: Changes and Continuities in an Era of Globalization; Samantha Punch 3. Transnational/Indigenous Youth: Learning, Feeling, and Being in Globalized Contexts; Fina Carpena-Méndez 4. Jeans, Bicycles and Mobile Phones: Adolescent Migrants' Material Consumption in Burkina Faso; Dorte Thorsen 5. New Youth Mobilities: Transnational Migrations, Racialization and Global Popular Culture; Diana Yeh 6. Forced Migration and Material and Virtual Mobility among Rwandan Children and Young People; Giorgia Donà 7. 'I Wish, I Wish...' Reflections on Mobility, Immobility and the Global 'Imaginings' of Nigerian Transnational Children; Angela Veale and Camilla Andres 8. The Children Left Behind by International Migrants from Sri Lanka: Victims or Beneficiaries of Globalization?; Rajith W. D. Lakshman, Sunethra Perera and Pinnawala Sangasumana 9. Ways of Being a Child in a Dispersed Family: Multi-Parenthood and Migratory Debt between France and Mali (Soninke Homeland); Élodie Razy 10. Protecting Children or Pandering to Politics? A Critical Analysis of Anti-Child Trafficking Discourse, Policy and Practice; Neil Howard 11. Mobility-in-Migration in an Era of Globalization: Key Themes and Future Directions; Giorgia Donà and Angela Veale