Contested Childhoods : : Migration, Governance, Identities.

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series
• Author: Seeberg, Marie Louise.
• TeilnehmendeR: Goździak, Elżbieta M.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; ©2016.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 pages)

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.