The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies
Generations Between Local and Global Dynamics
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More than half of the world's children grow up in Asia, a continent currently undergoing rapid economic and social change. Yet the voices of young people in Asian countries have received far too little attention. Providing a much-needed contribution to the field of childhood studies, The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies sets a new agenda in a research landscape that has so far lacked an overarching conceptual framework for illuminating Asian childhoods.
Adopting a systematic and comprehensive approach, this pioneering handbook profiles Asian childhoods and youth embedded within their distinctive families and societies as well as in more universal contexts. Locating young people in a variety of social structures, chapters highlight and interrogate strong intergenerational obligations across Asian cultures, even as Asian societies undergo rapid economic change, political transformation, and mass migration.
Prioritising Asian youth’s perspectives and contributions and revising established analytical frameworks of research, The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global conditions and private and public actors in Asian countries.
Introduction; Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Xiarong Gu, Jessica Schwittek, and Elena Kim
- SECTION ONE – INTRODUCTION
- Childhood On A Modern Drive: Growing Up In East Asia; Xiaorong Gu
- Chapter 1. Can Subaltern Children Speak? What China’s Children of Migrants say about Mobility, Inequality and Agency; Xiaorong Gu
- Chapter 2. Emotional Dimensions of Transnational Education: Parent-Child Relationships of the Chinese “Parachute Generation” in the United States; Siqi Tu
- Chapter 3. Fluid Childhoods: Chinese Migrants’ Descendants Growing up Transnationally; Laura Lamas-Abraira
- Chapter 4. Transformations of Early Childhood in Japan: From Free Play to Extended Education; Frederick De Moll and Akihide Inaba
- SECTION TWO – INTRODUCTION
- Multiplicity And Fundamental Inequality Of Childhoods In South Asia; Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Asma Khalid
- Chapter 5. Return Migration, Parenting, and The Subcontinent: Parents and Youths’ Perspectives of Life In India; Adrienne Lee Atterberry
- Chapter 6. Pluralizing Indian childhood: Children’s Experiences and Adult-Child Relations in Urban and Rural Contexts; Ravneet Kaur
- Chapter 7. Childhood Construction: Intergenerational Relations in the Afghan Refugee Community Living in Pakistan; Asma Khalid
- SECTION THREE – INTRODUCTION
- Living as a Child in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye: Navigating Between Solidarity, Collective Pressures, and Kinship Support in the Times of Disruption; Elena Kim and Doris Bühler-Niederberger
- Chapter 8. “I Thought I’d Kill Myself When I Grew Up”: Queer Childhood Narratives in Kazakhstan; Mariya Levitanus
- Chapter 9. Adolescents’ Migration Aspirations in Kyrgyzstan: A Migration Project as a “Collective Project” of the Family; Ekaterina Chicherina
- Chapter 10. Sociomaterial Analysis of Azerbaijani Children’s Smartphone Use: Generational Ordering Through User-Technology Interactions; Aysel Sultan, Doris Bühler-Niederberger, and Nigar Nasrullayeva
- Chapter 11. Türkiye - Negotiating More Adulthood in an “In-Between” Country; Aytüre Türkyilmaz
- Chapter 12. Grandparenting the Firstborn in Central Asia: Exploring the ‘Nebere Aluu’ Practice; Elena Kim
- SECTION FOUR – INTRODUCTION
- Childhood and Youth In Southeast Asia: Confronting Diversity And Social Change; Jessica Schwittek and Elizer Jay de los Reyes
- Chapter 13. Parenthood vs Childhood: Young People’s Generational Rebellion in Thailand; Giuseppe Bolotta
- Chapter 14. Refusing the Mobility Imperative among the Left-Behind Generation in the Northern Philippines; Elizer Jay de los Reyes
- Chapter 15. Social Relatedness and Forenaming in “Mixed” Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
- Chapter 16. “In This Way My Parents Could Really Develop”: Individualized Interdependence in Viet-German Families; Jessica Schwittek, Doris Bühler-Niederberger, and Kamila Labuda
The book not only constitutes a useful resource for readers of Children’s Geographies; arguably its relevance is even greater for childhood and youth studies scholars based in Asian contexts who hopefully benefit most from the volume’s Open Access format.
Doris Bühler-Niederberger is Rudolf Carnap Senior Professor at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.
Xiaorong Gu is Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University of Suffolk, UK.
Jessica Schwittek is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Elena Kim is Professor of Social Sciences at the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan.