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Adolescent Girls' Migration in The Global South

Transitions into Adulthood

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Authors:
  1. Katarzyna Grabska

    1. Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, The Netherlands

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  2. Marina de Regt

    1. VU University Amsterdam, VX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Nicoletta Del Franco

    1. University of Parma, Parma, Italy

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  • Provides a complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls’ migration and mobility
  • Analyzes a life-course approach to the adolescent migration in the Global South
  • Offers thorough field research from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sudan

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Girls, Transitions and Migration

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 1-29

  3. Doing Research Among Migrant and Refugee Girls

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 31-51

  4. Situating Girls’ Migration in Three Contexts

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 53-85

  5. Becoming a Migrant, Becoming a Refugee

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 87-120

  6. Life in the Cities

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 121-151

  7. Risks, Threats and Setbacks

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 153-177

  8. Being Protected and Protecting Yourself

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 179-197

  9. Surviving, Resisting and Moving Forward

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 199-218

  10. Beyond Survival: The Wider Implications of Girls’ Migration

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 219-241

  11. Transitions and Transformations

    • Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco
    Pages 243-264

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 265-272
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About this book

This book provides a nuanced, complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls’ migration and mobility in the Global South. The stories and the narratives of migrant girls collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sudan guide the readers in drawing the contours of their lives on the move, a complex, fluid scenario of choices, constraints, setbacks, risks, aspirations and experiences in which internal or international migration plays a pivotal role. The main argument of the book is that migration of adolescent girls intersects with other important transitions in their lives, such as those related to education, work, marriage and childbearing, and that this affects their transition into adulthood in various ways. While migration is sometimes negative, it can also offer girls new and better opportunities with positive implications for their future lives. The book explores also how concepts of adolescence and adulthood for girls are being transformed in the context of migration.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Katarzyna Grabska

  • VU University Amsterdam, VX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Marina de Regt

  • University of Parma, Parma, Italy

    Nicoletta Del Franco

About the authors

Katarzyna Grabska is a social anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on gender, generation, youth, displacement, refuges, return, and social transformations. Her book Gender, Identity and Home: Nuer repatriation to South Sudan (Brewer and Boydell) received Armory Talbot Prize in 2015. She also makes documentary films, which have also received international recognition in film festivals.


Marina de Regt is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She specializes in gender, labour and migration. She is the author of Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen (Syracuse University Press 2007) and co-edited with Bina Fernandez Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: The Home andthe World (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).


Nicoletta Del Franco is Social Anthropologist and Researcher with more than 20 years experience of work and research in Bangladesh on young people and adolescents, migration and development, and gender. She has also worked with international NGOs.


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