Years of Conflict : : Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement / / ed. by Jason Hart.

Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of “children” commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people under e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Forced Migration ; 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I ADOLESCENCE IN CONTEXT
  • 1 Reconstructing Adolescence after Displacement: Experience from Eastern Africa
  • 2 Doing Nothing and Being Good: Social Relationships and Networks of Support among Adolescent Congolese Refugees in Dar es Salaam
  • 3 Growing Up in Exile: Psychosocial Challenges Facing Refugee Youth in the United States
  • PART II ADOLESCENTS ENGAGING IN POLITICAL VIOLENCE
  • 4 Political Transition and Youth Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa: In Search of Understanding
  • 5 Abject Heroes: Marginalised Youth, Modernity and Violent Pathways of the Liberian Civil War
  • 6 UNHCR and the Military Recruitment of Adolescents
  • PART III GENDERED ADOLESCENCE IN EXILE
  • 7 The Long Road Home: Adolescent Afghan Refugees in Iran Contemplate ‘Return’
  • 8 Dislocated Masculinity: Adolescence and the Palestinian Nation-in-exile
  • PART IV RESPONDING TO ADOLESCENTS
  • 9 The Challenges of Programming with Youth in Afghanistan
  • 10 Adolescence and Armed Conflict in Colombia: ‘Resilience’ as a Construction Emerging within Psychosocial Work
  • PART V RESEARCHING WITH ADOLESCENTS
  • 11 Participatory Research with Waraffected Adolescents and Youth: Lessons Learnt from Fieldwork with Youth Gangs in Ayacucho, Peru
  • 12 The Place to Be? Making Media with Young Refugees
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index