Children and borders [electronic resource] /
Spyrou, S.editor.
Christou, M.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title ; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Children and Borderlands; 1Experiencing the State andNegotiating Belonging inZomia : Pa Koh and Bru-Van KieuEthnic Minority Youth in aLao-Vietnamese Borderland; 2 'Anyone Who Welcomes a LittleChild like this on My Behalf IsWelcoming Me' : A Case Study onResidential Child and Youth Carein the Mexican-American BorderZone; 3Growing Up in a PortugueseBorderland; Part IIChildren, Borders and War; 4Arrested in Place: PalestinianChildren and Families at the Border
5Destination Europe: AfghanUnaccompanied Minors CrossingBorders6Crossing Borders of Geography andSelf: South Sudanese Refugee YouthGangs in Egypt; Part IIIChildren and Contested Borders; 7What is a Border? Greek Cypriotand Turkish Cypriot Children'sUnderstanding of a ContestedTerritorial Division; 8Palestinian 'Children of theJunction': Contested Borders andRepresentations; 9Bordering in Transition: YoungPeople's Experiences in 'Post-Conflict' Belfast; Part IVChildren Crossing Borders
10Criminals in Our Land! BorderMovement and Apprehension ofChildren from Bangladesh Withinthe Juvenile Justice System in India11Crossing Borders and Borderlands:Childhood's Secret Undergrounds; 12Unaccompanied Migrant Childrenand Youth: Navigating RelationalBorderlands; Part VChildren, Borders and Belonging; 14Borders Separating Families:Children's Perspectives of LabourMigration in Estonia; 15'Everything is a Spectrum': KoreanMigrant Youth Identity Work in theTransnational Borderland; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Economic development.
Sociology.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Human geography.
Emigration and immigration.
Well-being.
Children.
Development Studies.
Sociology, general.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Human Geography.
Migration.
Child Well-being.