Learning From the Children

Jacqueline Waldren (1937-2021) was Research Associate, Lecturer and Tutor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and International Gender Studies and a member of Linacre College, University of Oxford. Her research on Europe included identity, gender, migration, tourism and lifestyle changes. Her publications include Insiders and Outsiders (1996), Tourists and Tourism (co-ed., 1997), Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-ed., 2004) and many articles. She was Director of DAMARC, Deia Archaeological and Anthropological Museum and Research Centre in Mallorca, Spain.

"This volume is an important contribution to the literature on children, their life worlds and child-parent interaction in multicultural settings. It is not entirely new that children have agency. The merit of the authors of this volume is that they are starting to address which strategies children may use both to strengthen and utilize this agency, and not the least point at limitations of agency." * Harald Beyer Broch, University of Oslo "Overall this is a strong volume with a coherent narrative and some very rich ethnography. I enjoyed reading it - all the contributors write well and have focused on the themes of the book. The links made between academic and practitioner work were very well done and the personal voices of the authors come through strongly. This is often an extremely hard task to pull off without becoming self-indulgent but in this case it worked very well." * Heather Montgomery, The Open University, UK

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionJacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek KaminskiPART I: CHANGING NORMSChapter 1. Invisible Routes, Invisible Lives: The Multiple Worlds of Runaway and Missing Women and Girls in Upper Sindh, PakistanNafisa ShahChapter 2. Education, Tradition and Modernization: Bedouin Girls in IsraelSarab Abu-Rabia QuedarPART  II: LISTENING AND LEARNINGChapter 3. More Than One Rung: Young women’s disadvantage in careers, work, skills and payLucy Russell and Louisa DarianChapter 4. We’re Not Poor! They Are: Talking with children and parents about poverty and social exclusion in so-called ‘deprived areas’ of Milton KeynesAnna LærkeChapter 5. Dancing With An Angel :What I have learnt from my “special needs” daughter, ElisaElsa DawsonChapter 6. Being Parented? Children and young people’s engagement with parenting activitiesJulie Seymour and Sally McNameePART III: CROSS-CULTURAL  MOBILITYChapter 7. Children’s Moving Stories: How the children of British lifestyle migrants cope with super-diversityKaren O’ReillyChapter 8. Children Negotiating Identity in MallorcaJacqueline WaldrenChapter 9. Identity Without Birthright: Negotiating Children’s Citizenship and Identity in Cross-Cultural BureaucracyIgnacy-Marek KaminskiChapter 10. Doing Fieldwork with Children in JapanRoger GoodmanNotes on the ContributorsBibliographyIndex