Childhood, Youth and Migration

This book shows the different ways in which migration matters in the context of global and local childhood and youth. Furthermore, it highlights that childhood, youth and migration as well as local and global perspectives need to be thought and analyzed together, to address the significant dimensions of social inequality in the context of growing up.

Migration as a phenomenon is most often motivated by the search for a better life. Very often children and young people, migrating alone or together with their families, migrate to ameliorate their own or others' living conditions and seize opportunities for realizing a good life. Today as well as in the past this search for a better life is very often triggered by socio-economic reasons, war or terrorism.

Against the backdrop of the topic raised above the book deals with children and young people's own perspective in countries of migration. It promotes the idea of connecting global and local issues of childhood and youth with a special focus on questions of education. It studies questions of global and local living and highlights living circumstances shaped by patterns of migration and mobility.

Auteur
Christine Hunner-Kreisel is Juniorprofessor (Transculturality and Gender) at the University of Vechta. Her area of expertise is research on childhood and youth. Her research topics are growing up in migrant societies, as well as migration and mobility processes in Germany and Azerbaijan. She researches on the subject of well-being of children and youth with reference to questions of gender, religion and educational processes. She has expertise in qualitative research methods.

Dr. Sabine Bohne is currently coordinator of the EU-Project Gender Equality in Research and the Academia (EGERA) at University of Vechta. Her main research topics are gender, gender based violence, equal opportunities and human rights (violations). In November 2015 she will also starts the coordination of Refugees @ UOS at University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Contenu
Introduction; Christine Hunner-Kreisel and Sabine Bohne.- Part I. Children's and Youth's own Perspective in Migrant Societies.- Can we Compare Children's Well-being Across Countries?; Lessons from the Children's Worlds Study; Sabine Andresen and Asher Ben-Arieh.- Do Muslim Girls Really Need Saving? Boundary-Making and Gender in Swiss Schools; Brigit Allenbach.- Children's Conceptions of Otherness: Constructions of the 'Moral Self' and Implications for Experiences of Migration; Tobia Fattore.- Acquiring Agency: Children's Perspective Within the Context of Migration in Germany; Karin Kämpfe and Manuela Westphal.- Part II. Education, Social Differentiations and (In-)Equality.- 'It's Hard to Blend in': Everyday Experiences of Schooling Achievement, Migration and Neoliberal Education Policy; Jen Skattebol.- Ethnic Difference and Inequality: An Ethnographic Study of Early Childhood Educational Organizations; Isabell Diehm, Melanie Kuhn, Claudia Machold and Miriam Mai.- Educational Inequality of Migrant Children in China: from Visible Exclusion to Invisible Discrimination; Yafang Wang and Diqing Jiang.- (Temporary) Educational Integration of School-age Children in the Context of Multiple and Multidirectional Migration: A Critical Challenge for the European Union and its Member States; Beatrix Bukus.- Education: Children and Youths in Rural Areas A German Perspective; Margit Stein.- Part III. Questions of Global and Local Living.- Making Sense of the Smell of Bangladesh; Benjamin Zeitlyn.- Qualities of Childhood: Kyrgyz Preschoolers Between Local Exigencies and Global Promises.- Doris Bühler-Niederberger.- From Access to Post-access Concerns: Rethinking Inclusion in Education Through Children's Everyday School Attendance in Rural Malaysia; Noëmi Gerber and Roy Huijsmans.- Transgenerational Culture Transfer as Social Constructions in Intergenerational Relationships; Christine Meyer.- Part IV. Living Circumstances Shaped by Patterns of Migration and Mobility.- Blood Always Finds a Way Home': AIDS Orphanhood and the Transformation of Kinship, Fosterage, and Children's Circulation Strategies in Uganda; Kristen Cheney.- Transnational Childhood and the Globalization of Intimacy; Elisabeth Rohr.- Back to Baku: Educational Mobility Experiences of Two Young Azerbaijanis and Identity Positionings Back 'Home'; Christine Hunner-Kreisel.