Childhood, Youth and Migration: Connecting Global and Local Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783319311098 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 295 str.

Christine Hunner-Kreisel; Sabine Bohne

Opis

This book examines the impacts of migration on children and youth. It brings together studies on children and youth in the context of migration and further forms of mobility. It studies both the local and global dimensions of migration and mobility processes, and promotes discussion of connecting global and local issues of childhood and youth with a special focus on questions of education. The book s theoretical focus is on questions of inclusion (justice; morality; education), and of global and local living, different forms of migration and mobility, transfer in generational contexts, as well as on living circumstances shaped by patterns of migration and mobility. "

O autorze

Christine Hunner-Kreisel is Juniorprofessor (“Transculturality and Gender“) at the University of Vechta. Her area of expertise is research on childhood and youth. Her research topics are growing up in migrant societies, as well as migration and mobility processes in Germany and Azerbaijan. She researches on the subject of well-being of children and youth with reference to questions of gender, religion and educational processes. She has expertise in qualitative research methods.

Dr. Sabine Bohne is currently coordinator of the EU-Project „Gender Equality in Research and the Academia” (EGERA) at University of Vechta. Her main research topics are gender, gender based violence, equal opportunities and human rights (violations). In November 2015 she will also starts the coordination of „Refugees @ UOS“ at University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Blurb

This book shows the different ways in which migration matters in the context of global and local childhood and youth. Furthermore, it highlights that childhood, youth and migration as well as local and global perspectives need to be thought and analyzed together, to address the significant dimensions of social inequality in the context of growing up.

Migration as a phenomenon is most often motivated by the search for a better life. Very often children and young people, migrating alone or together with their families, migrate to ameliorate their own or others’ living conditions and seize opportunities for realizing a good life. Today as well as in the past this search for a better life is very often triggered by socio-economic reasons, war or terrorism.

Against the backdrop of the topic raised above the book deals with children and young people’s own perspective in countries of migration. It promotes the idea of connecting global and local issues of childhood and youth with a special focus on questions of education. It studies questions of global and local living and highlights living circumstances shaped by patterns of migration and mobility.