Children and Youths’ Migration in a Global Landscape
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Currently, there are more than 36 million transnationally mobile children and youth. Featuring the stories of children and youth from places such as Myanmar, India, Hungary, the USA, and Central America, Children and Youths' Migration in a Global Landscape interrogates how transnational mobility shapes the lives of the relatively young.
This edited collection addresses questions that encourage us to consider what it means to be a transnationally mobile child or youth in the 21st century. How does transnational mobility affect youths' understanding of their ethnic identity? What is the link between educational attainment and social mobility? How does social class impact the educational trajectories of return migrant children? What impact does the knowledge economy have on new norms and practices related to human capital accumulation?
Illustrating that transnationally mobile children and youths' experiences need social enquiry, this book pushes all of us to question our assumptions, challenge well-established theories, and rethink our understanding of the root causes of social inequality.
Introduction - Children and Youths’ Migration in a Global Landscape: Young Lives Lived in Motion; Derrace Garfield McCallum and Adrienne Lee Atterberry
- Chapter 1. The "Borderlandization" of Mexico: Mexico's New Policies of Deportation and Detention of Minor Migrants and Their Effects on Migrants Movement; Angel A. Escamilla Garcia
- Chapter 2. Young Immigrants’ Integration into a New Home: The Case of Central American Children and Youth Settling in Washington D.C.; Ernesto Castañeda, Daniel Jenks, and Cynthia Cristobal
- Chapter 3. Transnational Migration, Ethnic Identity, and Blurred Boundaries: Indian American Youth Redefine Being a Second-Generation Immigrant; Adrienne Lee Atterberry
- Chapter 4. Marginality at School: The Experience of Immigrant Children in Rural Italy; Mauro Giardiello and Rosa Capobianco
- Chapter 5. Muslim Youth, Religion, and Educational Aspirations: The Case of West African Immigrants in New York City; Serah Shani
- Chapter 6. The Limits of Trading Cultural Capital: Returning Migrant Children and their Educational Trajectory in Hungary; Zsuzsanna Árendás, Judit Durst, Noémi Katona, and Vera Messing OPEN ACCESS
- Chapter 7. A Transnational Opportunity Trap? The Missing Link between Educational Attainment and Future Prospects for Myanmarese Migrant Students in Thailand; On Ni Chan
- Chapter 8. Globalization, Human Capital Accumulation and Dynamics of Transnational Migration of Youth: The Case of India; Pradeep Kumar Choudhury and Angrej Singh Gill
- Conclusion - Children and Youths’ Migration in a Global Landscape: Lessons Learned and Future Directions; Siqi Tu and Amy Lutz
Adrienne Lee Atterberry is a PRODiG Postdoctoral Fellow with the title of Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, USA.
Derrace Garfield McCallum is Assistant Professor of English & Cultural Studies in the Department of Global Liberal Arts at Aichi University in Nagoya, Japan.
Siqi Tu is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society at NYU Shanghai and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in Göttingen, Germany.
Amy Lutz is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA.