Children and Borders

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders.

This book provides plenty of evidence, including many photos, that new walls are constructed on many borders, to keep out those that would otherwise freely enter or to simply reinforce that 'the other' is not wanted. The 15 chapters of this collection provide rich local insights. The book as a whole makes intriguing reading . The excellent index helps busy users to locate keywords and specific scenarios quickly and effectively. (Werner Menski, Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol. 30 (3), 2016)

The work outlined within this particular volume provides fertile ground for further interdisciplinary exploration of how children engage with borders. This volume enables the two fields of study to take a closer step to one another, enriching both in the process. The collection brings together accounts that serve as an important starting point, calling researchers within these respective fields to attention. (Allegra, allegralaboratory.net, November, 2015)

Autorentext

Stuart C. Aitken, San Diego State University, USA Bree Akesson, McGill University, Canada Sonja Arndt, University of Waikato, New Zealand Chandni Basu, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany Carla Buil, University College Maastricht, the Netherlands Merike Darmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Lisa M. Dorner, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Marisa O. Ensor, University of Tennessee, USA Omri Grinberg, University of Toronto, Canada Roy Huijsmans, International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands Livia Jiménez Sedano, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Elizabeth Kennedy, San Diego State University, USA Sujin Kim, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA Dagmar Kutsar, University of Tartu, Estonia Leana Lahesoo, University of Tartu, Estonia Madeleine Leonard is a Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Northern Ireland Sofia Marques da Silva, University of Porto, Portugal Sylvia Meichsner, Open University, UK Martina McKnight, Queen's University, Northern Ireland Melissa Siegel, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Kate Swanson, San Diego State University, USA Marek Tesar, University of Auckland, New Zealand Tr?n Th? Hà Lan, independent researcher

Klappentext

This edited collection brings together scholars whose work explores the entangled relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how in turn children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. Providing situated accounts which offer critical perspectives on children's engagements with borders, contributors explore both the institutional power of borders as well as children's ability to impact borders through their own activity and agency. They show how borders and the borderlands surrounding them are active zones of engagement where notions of identity, citizenship and belonging are negotiated in ways that empower or disempower children, offer them possibilities and hope or alternatively deprive them of both. With innovative cross-fertilization between Border Studies and Childhood Studies, this volume illustrates the value of bringing children and borders together.

Inhalt
PART I: CHILDREN AND BORDERLANDS 1. Experiencing the State and Negotiating Belonging in Zomia: Pa Koh and Bru-Van Kieu Ethnic Minority Youth in a Lao-Vietnamese Borderland; Tr?n Th? Hà Lan and Roy Huijsmans 2. 'Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me': A Case Study on Residential Child and Youth Care in the Mexican-American Border Zone; Sylvia Meichsner 3. Growing up in a Portuguese Borderland; Sofia Marques da Silva PART II: CHILDREN, BORDERS AND WAR 4. Arrested in Place: Palestinian Children and Families at the Border; Bree Akesson 5. Destination Europe: Afghan Unaccompanied Minors Crossing Borders; Barla Buil and Melissa Siegel 6. Crossing Borders of Geography and Self: South Sudanese Refugee Youth Gangs in Egypt; Marisa O. Ensor PART III: CHILDREN AND CONTESTED BORDERS 7. What is a Border? Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Children's Understanding of a Contested Territorial Division; Miranda Christou and Spyros Spyrou 8. Palestinian 'Children of the Junction': Contested Borders and Representations; Omri Grinberg 9. Bordering in Transition: Young People's Experiences in 'Post Conflict' Belfast; Martina McKnight and Madeleine Leonard PART IV: CHILDREN CROSSING BORDERS 10. Criminals in our Land! Border Movement and Apprehension of Children from Bangladesh within the Juvenile Justice System in India; Chandni Basu 11. Crossing Borders and Borderlands: Childhood's Secret Undergrounds; Sonja Arndt and Marek Tesar 12. Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Youth: Navigating Relational Borderlands; Stuart C. Aitken, Kate Swanson and Elizabeth G. Kennedy PART V: CHILDREN, BORDERS AND BELONGING 13. When the Border Becomes a Threshold: Children's Visits to Relatives in Santo Domingo; Livia Jiménez Sedano 14. Borders Separating Families: Children's Perspectives of Labour Migration in Estonia; Dagmar Kutsar, Merike Darmody and Leana Lahesoo 15. 'Everything is a Spectrum': Korean Migrant Youth Identity Work in the Transnational Borderland; Sujin Kim and Lisa Dorner