Children and migration: at the crossroads of resiliency and vulnerability

Providing a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students, trafficked, stateless, fostered, unaccompanied and undocumented children. INDICE: PART I: INTRODUCTION - Migrant Children at the Crossroads; M.O.Ensor; E.M.Gozdziak - PART II: UNDERSTANDING MIGRANT CHILDREN: RESEARCH, VOICE AND REPRESENTATION - Understanding Migrant Children: Conceptualizations, Approaches and Issues; M.O.Ensor - Child Migration in Haiti: Domestic Labor and the Politics of Representation; D.M.Hoffman - At the Crossroads of Childhood, Mediaand Migration; L.de Block; D.Buckingham - PART III: REVIEWING POLICIES: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANT CHILDREN - The Production of Criminal Migrant Children: Surveillance, Detention, and Deportation in France; S.Terrio - Protecting the Rights of Internally Displaced Children; E.Ferris - Without Face or Future: Stateless Infants, Children, and Youth; M.Lynch - PART IV: RETHINKING PRACTICES: CREATING SPACES FOR AGENCY - Unaccompanied Minors at theCrossroads in British Columbia: Migration and Trafficking; R.E.Pike - In the Best Interest of the Child: Perceptions, Responses and Challenges in ProvidingAssistance to Trafficked Children in the United States; E.M.Gozdziak - SocialMobility in Children's Mobility? An Investigation into Child Circulation among the Maasai of Kenya; C.Archambault - PART V: SEARCHING FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES: WORKING AND LEARNING IN A NEW LAND - Migrating with Honor: Sites of Agency and Power in Child's Labor Migration in Bangladesh; K.Heissler - Transnational Students' Perspectives on Schooling in the US and Mexico: The Salience of School Experience and Country of Birth; T.Hamann, V.Zúñiga & J.Sánchez García - Children of Migrant Heritage and Equality of Opportunity in France Migrants in France; L.J.Limage - PART VI: CONCLUSIONS - The Way Forward: Conclusions and Recommendations; E.M.Gozdziak; M.O.Ensor

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27253-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 20/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés