Child and Youth Migration: Mobility-in-Migration in an Era of Globalization

264 Pages·2014·2.711 MB·English

by  Angela Veale, Giorgia Don`(eds.)

Child and Youth Migration
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Child and Youth
Migration
Mobility-in-Migration in an Era of
Globalization
Edited by
Angela Veale
University College Cork, Ireland
and
Giorgia Donà
University of East London, UK
Selection, introduction, conclusion and editorial matter © Angela Veale and
Giorgia Donà 2014
Individual chapters © Respective authors 2014
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables v ii
Acknowledgments v iii
Notes on Contributors ix
1 Complex Migrations, Migrant Child and Family Life
Trajectories and Globalization 1
Angela Veale and Giorgia Donà
2 Young Migrant Trajectories from Bolivia to Argentina:
Changes and Continuities in an Era of Globalization 21
Samantha Punch
3 Transnational/Indigenous Youth: Learning, Feeling and
Being in Globalized Contexts 44
Fina Carpena-Méndez
4 Jeans, Bicycles and Mobile Phones: Adolescent Migrants’
Material Consumption in Burkina Faso 67
Dorte Thorsen
5 New Youth Mobilities: Transnational Migrations,
Racialization and Global Popular Culture 91
Diana Yeh
6 Forced Migration, and Material and Virtual Mobility among
Rwandan Children and Young People 116
Giorgia Donà
7 ‘I Wish, I Wish…’: Reflections on Mobility, Immobility and
the Global ‘Imaginings’ of Nigerian Transnational Children 140
Angela Veale and Camilla Andres
8 The Children Left Behind by International Migrants from
Sri Lanka: Victims or Beneficiaries of Globalization? 162
Rajith W. D. Lakshman, Sunethra Perera and
Reverend Pinnawala Sangasumana
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vi Contents
9 W ays of Being a Child in a Dispersed Family:
Multiparenthood and Migratory Debt between
France and Mali (Soninke Homeland) 1 86
É lodie Razy
10 P rotecting Children or Pandering to Politics? A Critical
Analysis of Anti-Child Trafficking Discourse,
Policy and Practice 2 13
N eil Howard
11 M obility-in-Migration in an Era of Globalization:
Key Themes and Future Directions 2 34
G iorgia Donà and Angela Veale
Index 245
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
8.1 Departure for foreign employment by sex 1986–2010 166
8.2 Household migration type and school attendance of
the head’s children in 5–19 age group 174
8.3 Kernel density plots of the logarithm of education
expenditure per child (of age 5–19) by parent-migration
type of households 1 77
10.1 Teenagers working in Abeokuta 221
Tables
2.1 Characteristics of interview sample regarding the
economic crisis in Argentina 26
8.1 Estimated number of households in the population 170
8.2 Population estimates of children (aged 0–19) by
migration status of household 172
8.3 Comparison of average time taken traveling to school 175
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Acknowledgments
We thank our colleagues in the School of Applied Psychology University
College Cork and in the School of Law and Social Sciences at the
University of East London. We also thank our contributors and reviewers
and hope that they are as pleased as we are to see the book in print.
Special thanks to Roshini Kempadoo for permission to use her photo-
graph for the book cover. Thanks to Andrew James and the editorial
team at Palgrave Macmillan. We would like to express appreciation to
our families and friends for their interest in and support of this project.
In particular, Angela Veale would like to extend a special thanks to Jeff
Gonet, Pat and Sheila Veale, Conor Doolin and Leeann Lane, and also
to Maria Dempsey, Samantha Dockray and Allen White. Giorgia Donà
wishes to extend special thanks to Efthiha Voutira, Alice Bloch, Liz Egan,
Lorena Marcassa, Anna Gobbo, Natale Possamai, Meri Gava and Carlo
Donà, and to Matteo and Irene Donà, for including her in their imagi-
nary journeys.
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Notes on Contributors
Camilla Andres is an anthropologist and research assistant at School
of Applied Psychology, University College, Cork. Her research interests
include dynamics of relating within transnational families.
Fina C arpena-Mendez is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Oregon
State University. Her research interests include childhood and youth in
late capitalism; neoliberalism, postdevelopment and migration; tran-
snational families and emergent forms of life; learning, experience and
embodiment in a globalized world.
Giorgia Donà is Professor of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies in
the School of Law and Social Sciences at the University of East London
and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research focuses on
forced migration and refugee movements, child protection and migra-
tion; psychosocial interventions and participatory methodologies, with
a geographical focus on Central America, East Africa and Europe.
Neil H oward is Marie Curie research fellow at the Robert Schuman
Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. His work
falls principally between the fields of political economy and political
anthropology. He is particularly interested in the discourses, policies
and institutional practices that frame, construct and ultimately depo-
liticize labor migration. He has published several articles related to the
politics of human trafficking.
Rajith W. D. L akshman is a research officer at the Institute of
Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, as well as a research
fellow at Middlesex University, London, both in the UK. Previously
he was a senior lecturer in Economics affiliated with the University of
Colombo, Sri Lanka. Rajith received his PhD from the University of
Melbourne. Although topics related to forced migration (conflict, devel-
opment and disaster-induced displacement) have dominated his work,
he has focused more recently on regular forms of migration, primarily
within the context of Sri Lanka.
Sunethra Perera is a senior lecturer in Demography attached to
the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She receive her PhD from the
University of Mahidol, Thailand, for her work on international contract
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