Becoming Adult on the Move

This edited collection situates the migration of children and young people into Europe within a global framework of analysis and provides a holistic perspective that encompasses cultural media, ethnographic research and policy analysis. Drawing on a unique study of young unaccompanied migrants who subsequently became 'adult' within the UK and Italy, it examines their different trajectories and how they were impacted by their ability to secure legal status. Divided into three interlinked sections, it begins by examining the cultural repertoires about migration and adulthood to which migrants are sensitized in their countries of origin from a young age. This forms the contexts within which their direct experiences of turning 18 in a different country are explored. These combined insights are framed by an analysis of related policies which bureaucratically and institutionally shape these migratory experiences. This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of migration studies, international development, geography, sociology, anthropology, youth studies, law, education, health and wellbeing, social care and cultural studies.

Foregrounds popular cultural repertoires as well as the political discourses framing young people's migratory journeys Applies an intersectional analysis to understand child and youth migration Combines theoretical insights from the arts and humanities with migration studies, youth studies, and sociology

Auteur

Elaine Chase is Professor of Education, Wellbeing and International Development at the IOE, University College London's Faculty of Education and Society. Her research focuses on the sociological dimensions of health and wellbeing, particularly for communities likely to face marginalisation and discrimination.

Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham., UK. His research interests include undocumented migration, child and youth mobility and camps and urban diversity.

Dawn Chatty is Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and former Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, UK. She is a social anthropologist whose ethnographic interests lie in the Middle East, particularly with refugee young people and mobile pastoral tribes.

Contenu
List of Figures.- Acknowledgments.- Contributors.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: "To Everyone, Homeland is Kashmir": Cultural Conceptions of Migration, Wellbeing, Adulthood and Future among Young Afghans in Europe.- Chapter 3: 'Becoming adult by remaining a minor': Reconfigurations of Adulthood and Wellbeing by young Vietnamese migrants in the UK.- Chapter 4: Escaping Eritrea, Entering Sidet : Young Refugees Realizing Voice, Autonomy and Responsibility in Exile.- Chapter 5: Blood Feuds, Rap and Romance: Cultural Conceptions of Albanian Youth Migration.- Chapter 6: Conversations with Jamal: a young person drifting in the global asylum system.- Chapter 7: Conversations with Dan: Piecing together a life story between past, present, and future.- Chapter 8: Conversations with Adnan: Navigating disbelief and mistrust while seeking asylum from Albania.- Chapter 9: 'They are not a good match': Exploring the attitudes of marriage amongst young Afghans in the diaspora through an intersectional perspective.- Chapter 10: Recasting the 'Best Interests' of Young People on the Move: the UK Case.- Chapter 11: DIY Rights? Unaccompanied Migrant and Asylum-Seeking Children and Youth and Secondary Migration in Europe.- Chapter 12: Global Governance of Child and Youth Migration.- Endnotes.- Index.