Childhood

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This article introduces a special issue on childhood and migration. It argues that understandings of the ways in which children form belongings and attachments are enhanced by conducting research with children who migrate or who live mobile and ...

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Young people create differentiated models of belonging. Their strategies reflect contexualized competences — the capacity to understand and negotiate the influence of national frameworks in specific situations. Theories that understand belonging as ...

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This article argues that a sense of local belonging and emotional attitudes to one’s neighbourhood are inherently interconnected. It explores immigrant children’s emotional experiences of their neighbourhoods in Paris and Berlin through subjective maps ...

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This study explores the adaptation of unaccompanied Sudanese refugee minors resettled in the US. Seven years after resettlement, in-depth interviews were conducted with 19 Sudanese youths and 20 foster parents regarding factors that contributed to ...

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Research with refugees and asylum seekers tends to be divided into research with adults or research with children under the age of 18. This is despite relational approaches to studying age that contest such dichotomous and fixed understandings of ‘life-...

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Among the Maasai of southern Kenya, child circulation in the form of adoption is widespread. It persists despite increased family nuclearization and pervasive sedentarizing discourses depicting ‘modern’ family life as small, settled and nuclear. Through ...

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Through its focus on children and return migration, this article addresses two invisibilities within migration research. It presents the experiences of children as equal movers in returning households, drawing on research with them in their domestic ...

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Independent youth migration is socially embedded in many African societies. While it is often exclusively perceived of as a process of intergenerational negotiation which leads to higher social positions after returning home, this article points out that ...

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This article explores the experiences of ‘home’ for British-born Bangladeshi children who are active members of transnational families. The article illustrates that these children, who are mobile between Sylhet and London, play an active role in ...