NEW BOOK PUBLICATION







Children and Borders (Palgrave Macmillan)



Edited by Spyros Spyrou and Miranda Christou











Brief Description







This edited collection brings together scholars whose work explores the entangled relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how in turn children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders. Providing situated accounts which offer critical perspectives on children's engagements with borders, contributors explore both the institutional power of borders as well as children's ability to impact borders through their own activity and agency. They show how borders and the borderlands surrounding them are active zones of engagement where notions of identity, citizenship and belonging are negotiated in ways that empower or disempower children, offer them possibilities and hope or alternatively deprive them of both. With innovative cross-fertilization between Border Studies and Childhood Studies, this volume illustrates the value of bringing children and borders together.











Contents







PART I: CHILDREN AND BORDERLANDS



1. Experiencing the State and Negotiating Belonging in Zomia: Pa Koh and Bru-Van Kieu Ethnic Minority Youth in a Lao-Vietnamese Borderland; Trần Thị Hà Lan and Roy Huijsmans



2. 'Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me': A Case Study on Residential Child and Youth Care in the Mexican-American Border Zone; Sylvia Meichsner



3. Growing up in a Portuguese Borderland; Sofia Marques da Silva







PART II: CHILDREN, BORDERS AND WAR



4. Arrested in Place: Palestinian Children and Families at the Border; Bree Akesson



5. Destination Europe: Afghan Unaccompanied Minors Crossing Borders; Barla Buil and Melissa Siegel



6. Crossing Borders of Geography and Self: South Sudanese Refugee Youth Gangs in Egypt; Marisa O. Ensor







PART III: CHILDREN AND CONTESTED BORDERS



7. What is a Border? Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Children's Understanding of a Contested Territorial Division; Miranda Christou and Spyros Spyrou



8. Palestinian 'Children of the Junction': Contested Borders and Representations; Omri Grinberg



9. Bordering in Transition: Young People's Experiences in 'Post Conflict' Belfast; Martina McKnight and Madeleine Leonard







PART IV: CHILDREN CROSSING BORDERS



10. Criminals in our Land! Border Movement and Apprehension of Children from Bangladesh within the Juvenile Justice System in India; Chandni Basu



11. Crossing Borders and Borderlands: Childhood's Secret Undergrounds; Sonja Arndt and Marek Tesar



12. Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Youth: Navigating Relational Borderlands; Stuart C. Aitken, Kate Swanson and Elizabeth G. Kennedy







PART V: CHILDREN, BORDERS AND BELONGING



13. When the Border Becomes a Threshold: Children's Visits to Relatives in Santo Domingo; Livia Jiménez Sedano



14. Borders Separating Families: Children's Perspectives of Labour Migration in Estonia; Dagmar Kutsar, Merike Darmody and Leana Lahesoo



15. 'Everything is a Spectrum': Korean Migrant Youth Identity Work in the Transnational Borderland; Sujin Kim and Lisa Dorner



The book is available through Palgrave and Amazon (see attached flyer for more details).















Spyros Spyrou

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology

Director, Center for the Study of Childhood and

Adolescence

Visiting Research Professor, Queen’s Univeristy, Belfast

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New Book: Spyros Spyrou and Miranda  Christou (eds), Children and Borders.  Palgrave Macmillan (2014). Available at Palgrave Macmillan<http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/children-and-borders-spyros-spyrou/?K=9781137326300> and Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/Children-Borders-Studies-Childhood-Youth/dp/1137326301>.







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