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Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency
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Abstract This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their host societies. What role does the cultural backg... view more
This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their host societies. What role does the cultural background of the society of origin on the one hand and the strategies of integration found in the host society on the other play in the creation of identity and of a concept of home, origin and belonging? How do children express processes of cultural orientation and integration (music, media, fashion, style) and what role do peer groups and social milieus play in this regard? How do migrant children experience xenophobia and a lack of acceptance on the side of the host society and how do they counter-balance such experiences? The approach taken is both comparative and interdisciplinary, the contributors having different theoretical and methodological backgrounds, the contributions dealing with different social and cultural settings both with regard to place of origin and host society.... view less
Keywords
childhood; ethnology; migration; displacement; identity formation; country of origin
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Free Keywords
Childhood; Ethnology; Identity; Integration; Migration; Youth
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
228 p.
Series
Kultur und soziale Praxis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839403846
ISBN
978-3-8394-0384-6
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0