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Contested Childhoods : Migration, Governance, Identities.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seeberg, Marie Louise.
Other Authors: Goździak, Elżbieta M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Editors and Contributors
  • 1 Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy
  • Changed Realities Require New Conceptual Tools
  • Childhood Studies and Approaches to Migration
  • Contested Childhoods
  • Migration Studies and Approaches to Childhood
  • Growing up in Migrancy
  • Changing Realities, Adaptable Methodologies
  • About This Book: Migrancy and Contestations of Childhood
  • References
  • International Migration
  • 2 Forced Victims or Willing Migrants? Contesting Assumptions About Child Trafficking
  • Studying Trafficked Children and Youth
  • What is Child Trafficking? Who is a Child?
  • Passive Victims Duped by Criminals or Capable Decision-Makers Aided by Family Members?
  • What is in the Best Interest of the Trafficked Child? Who Decides?
  • Victimhood
  • Education or Waged Employment
  • Therapeutic Interventions
  • Towards Solutions and Resolutions
  • References
  • 3 Child Refugees and National Boundaries
  • Refugee Children
  • Child Refugees: Four Situations and a Question
  • Boundaries of Nations, Boundaries of Childhoods
  • The Four Selected Cases
  • The 1930s: Edith and Berthold
  • The 2010s: Mohammed and Jasmin
  • Comparing the Four Cases
  • Contesting the Boundaries of Childhood and Nationhood
  • References
  • 4 South Sudanese Diaspora Children: Contested Notions of Childhood, Uprootedness, and Belonging Among Young Refugees in the U.S.
  • South Sudanese Diaspora Children
  • Studying Diaspora Children: A Note on Frameworks and Methods
  • From Africa to Nebraska: Historical and Contemporary Factors
  • Identity Formation Across Generations
  • Diaspora, Violence and the Rise of Street Gangs
  • The Way Forward: New Waves of Displacement and Diasporization
  • References
  • Governance
  • 5 Lost Between Protective Regimes: Roma in the Norwegian State
  • Introduction
  • Background.
  • Proper Parenting?
  • Pastoral Power and Child Rescue
  • Growing up Norwegian-State, Class and Childhood: the Hegemonic Childhood Regime
  • Some Notes on the History of Governance of Minorities in Norway
  • Growing up Roma-from Autonomy to Dependency?
  • The Child Protection Services-Individualization and Legislation
  • The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities-Liberation or Control Through Care?
  • The Universalized Political Regime and Norwegian Child Protection Services
  • Perceptions, Dilemmas, and Ambiguity Dealing with Roma Families
  • Maria: Poor Mothering
  • Lost Between Protective Regimes?
  • References
  • 6 When Policy Meets Practice: A Study of Ethnic Community-Based Organizations for Children and Youth
  • Ethnic Community-Based Organizations
  • Youth Organizations in the Nordic Context
  • The Concept of Integration
  • The Cultural, Social and Civic/Political Dimensions of Integration
  • Eight Ethnic Community-Based Organizations for Children and Youth
  • The Organizations' Practice
  • Migrancy Framework
  • Cultural Maintenance
  • Social Network for People with the Same Cultural Heritage
  • Civic and Political Engagement
  • Cultural Heritage Preservation and Democratic Participation
  • References
  • Identities
  • 7 Identity Development Among Youth of Vietnamese Descent in the Czech Republic
  • Vietnamese in the Czech Republic
  • Stories as Entrance to Personal Identity
  • The Stable Point of Identity Development
  • The Dynamic Nature of Migrant Children's Identities: Negotiating Ethnic Identity Between Highly Polarized Expectations
  • From "Blessed Unconsciousness" to Rejecting the Ethnicity Which is Different from the Mainstream
  • "Ethnic Revival": The Renewed Interest in the Parents' Ethnicity and Culture and the Change of Social Circle.
  • Contesting the Dual Reference Frame of Identity and Belonging and Embarrassment of Both Cultures
  • Partner Choice and Family Expectations
  • That Is Not Who I Am: Contesting One's Identity Against Generally-Held Stereotypes
  • Symbolic Ethnicity and Race
  • It Is Not All About Ethnicity: Contesting the Ethnic Majority-Minority Framework
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 8 Mixed Parentage: Negotiating Identity in Denmark
  • "Mixed" Children-An Overlooked Category
  • Mixedness-An Ambiguous Term
  • Researching Mixed Children's Own Perspectives
  • Theoretical Framework
  • Our Understanding of the Children's Narratives
  • Self-descriptions
  • Social Networks
  • Subjective Experiences of Being Mixed
  • Transnational Relations
  • Emerging Strategies and Paradigm
  • Concluding Comments
  • References
  • 9 "I Think of Myself as Norwegian, Although I Feel that I Am from Another Country." Children Constructing Ethnic Identity in Diverse Cultural Contexts in Oslo, Norway
  • The Field Site and Methodology
  • Theoretical Framework
  • Childhood Studies and Children's Perspectives
  • Shifting Selves, Subject Positions and Gender
  • Notions of Hybridity and Social Classification
  • Ethnic Identity Construction Among the Children
  • "One Foot in Two Cultures"
  • The Importance of Appearance: Skin Colour
  • The Importance of Appearance: Clothes
  • The Importance of Language
  • Concluding Remarks: Contesting Ascribed Ethnic Identities in Migrancy
  • References
  • 10 Looking Ahead: Contested Childhoods and Migrancy
  • Theoretical Implications
  • Policy and Programmatic Implications
  • Implications for Further Research, Practices, and Policies
  • References
  • 11 Erratum to: Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy
  • M.L. Seeberg and E.M. Goździak (eds.), Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy, IMISCOE Research Series, &amp
  • #6.
  • DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44610-3
  • Index.

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