Childhood, Youth and Migration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Childhood, Youth and Migration: Connecting Global and Local Perspectives – Introduction

   • Christine Hunner-Kreisel, Sabine Bohne

   Pages 1-11

3. Children’s and Youth’s Own Perspective in Migrant Societies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Can we Compare Children’s Well-being Across Countries? Lessons from the Children’s Worlds Study

      • Sabine Andresen, Asher Ben-Arieh

      Pages 15-29

   3. Do Muslim Girls Really Need Saving? Boundary-Making and Gender in Swiss Schools

      • Brigit Allenbach

      Pages 31-47

   4. Children’s Conceptions of Otherness: Constructions of the ‘Moral Self’ and Implications for Experiences of Migration

      • Tobia Fattore

      Pages 49-62

   5. Acquiring Agency: Children’s Perspective Within the Context of Migration in Germany

      • Karin Kämpfe, Manuela Westphal

      Pages 63-80

4. Education, Social Differentiations and (In-)Equality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. ‘It’s Hard to Blend in’: Everyday Experiences of Schooling Achievement, Migration and Neoliberal Education Policy

      • Jennifer Skattebol

      Pages 83-99

   3. Ethnic Difference and Inequality. An Ethnographic Study of Early Childhood Educational Organizations.

      • Isabell Diehm, Melanie Kuhn, Claudia Machold, Miriam Mai

      Pages 101-113

   4. Educational Inequality in Migrant Children in China: From Visible Exclusion to Invisible Discrimination

      • Yafang Wang, Diqing Jiang

      Pages 115-132

   5. (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

      Pages 133-151

   6. Education: Children and Youths in Rural Areas: A German Perspective

      • Margit Stein

      Pages 153-166

5. Questions of Global and Local Living

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Making Sense of the Smell of Bangladesh

      • Benjamin Zeitlyn

      Pages 169-183

   3. Qualities of Childhood: Kyrgyz Preschoolers Between Local Exigencies and Global Promises

      • Doris Bühler-Niederberger

      Pages 185-201

   4. From Access to Post-access Concerns: Rethinking Inclusion in Education Through Children’s Everyday School Attendance in Rural Malaysia

      • Noëmi Gerber, Roy Huijsmans

      Pages 203-221

   5. Transgenerational Culture Transfer as Social Constructions in Intergenerational Relationships

      • Christine Meyer

      Pages 223-242

6. Living Circumstances Shaped by Patterns of Migration and Mobility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. ‘Blood Always Finds a Way Home’: AIDS Orphanhood and the Transformation of Kinship, Fosterage, and Children’s Circulation Strategies in Uganda

      • Kristen Cheney

      Pages 245-259

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.

• Children and youth in rural areas
• Children’s view on justice and well-being
• Educating the children of migrant workers
• Justice and morality
• Living circumstances shaped by patterns of migration
• Results from the Children’s world study
• Taking the child/the growing up person serious
• about the nature of childhood
• connecting global and local issues of growing up
• global and local living
• intersection of global and local issues in childrens and youth
• childhood studies

• ISBS, Vechta, Germany

  Christine Hunner-Kreisel

• Coordinator of EU-Project “Gender Equality in Research and the Academia” (EGERA), Vechta, Germany

  Sabine Bohne

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.

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