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Children feature centrally in the ubiquitous narratives of ‘migration crises’. They are often depicted as essentially vulnerable and in need of special protections, or suspiciously adult-like and a threat to national borders. At the same time, many voices, experiences, and stories are rarely heard, especially about children on the move within the global South. This bilingual book, written in English and Spanish, challenges simplistic narratives to enrich perspectives and understanding. Drawing on collaborations between young (im)migrants, researchers, artists and activists, this collection asks new questions about how crises are produced, mobility is controlled, and childhood is conceptualised. Answers to these questions have profound implications for resources, infrastructures, and relationships of care. Authors offer insights from diverse global contexts, painting a rich and insightful tapestry about childhood (im)mobility. They stress that children are more than recipients of care and that the crises they face are multiple and stratifying, with long historical roots. Readers are invited to understand migration as an act of concern and love, and to attend to how the solidarities between citizens and ‘others’, adults and children, and between children, are understood and forged.
La niñez ocupa un lugar central en las narrativas omnipresentes de las “crisis migratorias”. A menudo ésta es representada como esencialmente vulnerable y necesitada de protección especial, como sospechosamente parecida a los adultos, o como una amenaza para las fronteras nacionales. Al mismo tiempo, existen muchas voces, experiencias e historias que rara vez son escuchadas, especialmente aquellas que hablan sobre las infancias en movimiento dentro del Sur global. ‘Este libro bilingüe, escrito en inglés y español, desafía las narrativas simplistas para enriquecer nuestra perspectivas y comprensión. Basada en colaboraciones entre jóvenes (in)migrantes, investigadores, artistas y activistas, esta colección plantea nuevas preguntas sobre cómo se producen las crisis, cómo se controla la movilidad y cómo se conceptualiza a la infancia y la niñez. Las respuestas a estas preguntas tienen profundas implicaciones para la distribución de recursos, la infraestructura y las prácticas de cuidado. Las y los autores ofrecen perspectivas que surgen de diversos contextos globales, construyendo un rico y detallado tapiz sobre la (in)movilidad infantil. Destacan que niñas y niños son mucho más que simples receptores de cuidados y que las crisis que enfrentan son múltiples y estratificadas, con profundas raíces históricas. Se invita a las/os lectoras/es a entender la migración como un acto de concientización y amor, y a poner atención en cómo se entienden y forjan las solidaridades entre ciudadanos y aquellos que son percibidos como “otros”; entre adultos y niñas/os, y entre las/os niñas/os mismas/os.
Critical global perspectives on childhood, care, and migration
Publication date: January 9, 2023
Open Access PDF ISBN: 9781800080782
Paperback ISBN: 9781800080799
Hardback ISBN: 9781800080805
Trim size (hardback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Trim size (paperback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Page count (hardback): 522
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Children feature centrally in the ubiquitous narratives of ‘migration crises’. They are often depicted as essentially vulnerable and in need of special protections, or suspiciously adult-like and a threat to national borders. At the same time, many voices, experiences, and stories are rarely heard, especially about children on the move within the global South. This bilingual book, written in English and Spanish, challenges simplistic narratives to enrich perspectives and understanding. Drawing on collaborations between young (im)migrants, researchers, artists and activists, this collection asks new questions about how crises are produced, mobility is controlled, and childhood is conceptualised. Answers to these questions have profound implications for resources, infrastructures, and relationships of care. Authors offer insights from diverse global contexts, painting a rich and insightful tapestry about childhood (im)mobility. They stress that children are more than recipients of care and that the crises they face are multiple and stratifying, with long historical roots. Readers are invited to understand migration as an act of concern and love, and to attend to how the solidarities between citizens and ‘others’, adults and children, and between children, are understood and forged.
La niñez ocupa un lugar central en las narrativas omnipresentes de las “crisis migratorias”. A menudo ésta es representada como esencialmente vulnerable y necesitada de protección especial, como sospechosamente parecida a los adultos, o como una amenaza para las fronteras nacionales. Al mismo tiempo, existen muchas voces, experiencias e historias que rara vez son escuchadas, especialmente aquellas que hablan sobre las infancias en movimiento dentro del Sur global. ‘Este libro bilingüe, escrito en inglés y español, desafía las narrativas simplistas para enriquecer nuestra perspectivas y comprensión. Basada en colaboraciones entre jóvenes (in)migrantes, investigadores, artistas y activistas, esta colección plantea nuevas preguntas sobre cómo se producen las crisis, cómo se controla la movilidad y cómo se conceptualiza a la infancia y la niñez. Las respuestas a estas preguntas tienen profundas implicaciones para la distribución de recursos, la infraestructura y las prácticas de cuidado. Las y los autores ofrecen perspectivas que surgen de diversos contextos globales, construyendo un rico y detallado tapiz sobre la (in)movilidad infantil. Destacan que niñas y niños son mucho más que simples receptores de cuidados y que las crisis que enfrentan son múltiples y estratificadas, con profundas raíces históricas. Se invita a las/os lectoras/es a entender la migración como un acto de concientización y amor, y a poner atención en cómo se entienden y forjan las solidaridades entre ciudadanos y aquellos que son percibidos como “otros”; entre adultos y niñas/os, y entre las/os niñas/os mismas/os.
‘this book offers a global perspective on the situation of “itinerant” children and youth by integrating diverse realities from across the globe. It highlights the diverse backgrounds of the researchers, but above all, the diverse contexts in which the protagonists are children and adolescents’ Sociedad e Infancias
Rachel Rosen (Editor)
Rachel Rosen is an Associate Professor at the UCL Social Research Institute, UK. Her research focuses on children and families with precarious immigration status, and their practices of sustenance and care at the intersections of neoliberal welfare and border regimes. Her current research includes Children Caring on the Move and Solidarities: Negotiating migrant deservingness. Rachel is co-author of Negotiating Adult-Child Relationships in Early Childhood Research (2014, Routledge), and co-editor of Reimagining Childhood Studies (2019, Bloomsbury Academic), Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? (2018, UCL Press), and Childhood, parenting culture, and adult-child relations in global perspectives (FRS, 2020).
Elaine Chase (Editor)
Elaine Chase is Professor in Education, Wellbeing and Development at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, UK. Her research focuses on the wellbeing outcomes of young people and communities, particularly those most likely to experience disadvantage and marginalisation. Elaine was PI on the ESRC-funded Becoming Adult Project and is currently PI on the GCRF-Cluster funded project: Life Facing Deportation. She is also CI on the ESRC/AHRC Migration Leadership Team and several ESRC-funded projects including RELIEF 1 & 2; Children Caring on the Move; Lives on Hold our Stories Told; and Connecting During Covid She is first author of Youth Migration and the Politics of Wellbeing: Stories of Life in Transition (2021), Bristol University Press.
Sarah Crafter (Editor)
Sarah Crafter is a Professor in Cultural-Developmental Psychology in the School of Psychology and Counselling at the The Open University, UK. Her work is broadly interested in young people’s migration experiences and how they impact on their everyday lives, particularly transitions to adulthood. Sarah is PI on the ESRC-funded research project Children Caring on the Move and is also a partner and work package co-lead on an EU Horizon 2020 project called NEW ABC: Networking the educational world: Across boundaries for community-building. Sarah is an Editor for the journal Children & Society and an Associate Editor for the European Journal for the Psychology of Education. She is first author of Developmental transitions: Exploring stability and change through the lifespan (2019, Routledge).
Valentina Glockner (Editor)
Valentina Glockner is a Professor in Childhood Studies at the Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas at CINVESTAV, Mexico. Her research focuses on child migration, forced displacement, and child labor, and their links to governmentality and humanitarianism. Her work results from the interweaving of participatory research, collaborative ethnography, and audio visual and artistic methodologies that privilege self-representation. She co-directed the bilingual project on digital humanities Infancias en Movimiento on child migration in the Americas.
Sayani Mitra (Editor)
Sayani Mitra is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at The Open University, UK, working on an ESRC-funded research project Children Caring on the Move. She is a sociologist with interest in reproductive sociology, reproductive technologies, social reproduction, political economy, migration, ethnography and comparative research. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany. She is the co-editor of Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel (2018, Palgrave Macmillan).
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