Child Migration in Africa

Name: Child Migration in Africa
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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AvIman Hashim,Doctor Dorte Thorsen

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Engelska, 2011

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Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's voluntary migration and their experiences of it. Their accounts challenge the normative ideals of what a 'good' childhood is, which often underlie public debates about children's migration, education and work in developing countries.The comparative study of Burkina Faso and Ghana highlights that social networks operate in ways that can be both enabling and constraining for young migrants, as can cultural views on age- and gender-appropriate behaviour. The book questions easily made assumptions regarding children's experiences when migrating independently of their parents and contributes to analytical and cross-cultural understandings of childhood.Part of the groundbreaking Africa Now series, Child Migration in Africa is an important and timely contribution to an under-researched area.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-02-10
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781780321196
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Serie:Africa Now

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Dorte Thorsen is a visiting research fellow at the department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading. She has published book chapters, policy papers and articles in the journals Migrations & Homes, Africa, Forum for Development Studies and the Journal for Comparative Family Studies.Iman Hashim is a Research Fellow at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Kulutur University. She also has worked for national and international non-governmental organisations as a programme and a research officer.

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In trash dumps, brothels and other sites where children toil in the worst forms of child labor, it is not unusual to encounter a preponderance of children who have migrated outside their family support networks. This study is an important early contribution in the nascent literature aimed at understanding independent child migration . It provides voice to independent child migrants in West Africa. The diversity of experiences is thought-provoking. This impressive work will serve as a foundation for further research that examines the extent to which these narrative accounts generalize beyond the voices found by these authors.

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Preface1. Introduction: Interrogating Childhood and Migration2. Contexts of Migration3. Choosing to Move: The Reasons of Rural Children's Migration4: Journeys and Arrivals: Introductions to New Social Worlds5: Navigating Migrant Life: Processes of Constructing Identities6. Moving On