Rethinking Childhoods and Migrations

This edited volume investigates the complexities of child refugees and migrants from a global perspective. With millions of young migrants and refugees worldwide, there is a need for novel understandings and conceptualizations of the impact of national policies affecting these children, as well as a thorough investigation of possible methodological dilemmas within research on and with migrant children and youth. This book addresses these in three parts. Part one examines the life experiences of child migrants and refugees with emphasis on how different forms of mobility shape them. Part two explores different contexts of education: How education directed at child migrants becomes organized, the specific educational needs that migrant children have, and the inclusion and possible exclusion of migrant children. Part three discusses and problematizes ethical dilemmas that research on and with migrant children and young people awakens. Foregrounding nuanced perspectives from the Global Southor the world majorityoften ignored in traditional migration research, this book fills a crucial gap in childhood and youth studies as well as migration research.

Features global contributions from scholars in Education, Psychology, Social Anthropology, Sociology, and Youth Studies Highlights the experiences and predicaments of child migrants and refugees from their point of view Interrogates the methodological and ethical dilemmas of studying child migration

Autorentext

Kerstin von Brömssen is Senior Professor of Educational Science in the Department of Social and Behavioral Studies at University West, Sweden.

Live Stretmo is Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies of the Masters Program in Child and Youth Studies at University of Gothenberg, Sweden.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- Theme I Experiences of Migrant Children and Young People.- 2. The role of language competences in building relationships in local and transnational settings: the perspectives of CEE-born children and young people living in Sweden.- 3. The Experience of Living as a Forced Migrant for Life: Voices of Mothers and their Children in Limpopo Valley of Gaza Province.- 4. Becoming a well-integrated migrant in Sweden: Young Afghans narratives of respectable versus bad migrants.- Theme II Macro and Educational System Analysis.- 5. Rethinking the Education for children in forced displacement; a specific focus on children under forced displacement in the Horn of Africa.- 6. Teacher Professionalism and Work Condition in Emergency Settings: Instances from 'Host Countries' of Africa and the Middle East.- 7. Emerging Educational Opportunities within Language Barriers for Refugee Children in Indonesia.- 8. On hosting and being hostile. Italy and its dis-connected youth.- 9. Applying Ubuntu to the Statelessness Crisis: Protecting Migrant Children in South Africa.- Theme III Ethics and Methodology.- 10. Researching and Representing Sweden's Ungrievable Children: The Self-Perceived Champion of Children's Rights that Closed its Borders.- 11. Children-focused research methodology in migration context: triangulating techniques, social actors, and perspectives.- 12. Learning About International Children's Transnational Experiences in Finland.- Through Participatory Photography: An Experiment with Limited Success.- 13. Epilogue - Mobilum, Ergo Sum.