Learning From the Children

Jacqueline Waldren is 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 includes 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 is Director of DAMARC, Deia Archaeological and Anthropological Museum and Research Centre in Mallorca, Spain. Ignacy-Marek Kaminski is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Mejiro University, Tokyo; Associate Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at Goteborg University; and Visiting Senior Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford University. He has done fieldwork among the Ainu, Inuit, Roma and Ryukyuans; his research focuses on transitive identity, conflict resolution and leadership. His works are published in twelve languages.

"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 Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski PART I: CHANGING NORMS Chapter 1. Invisible Routes, Invisible Lives: The Multiple Worlds of Runaway and Missing Women and Girls in Upper Sindh, Pakistan Nafisa Shah Chapter 2. Education, Tradition and Modernization: Bedouin Girls in Israel Sarab Abu-Rabia Quedar PART II: LISTENING AND LEARNING Chapter 3. More Than One Rung: Young women's disadvantage in careers, work, skills and pay Lucy Russell and Louisa Darian Chapter 4. We're Not Poor! They Are: Talking with children and parents about poverty and social exclusion in so-called 'deprived areas' of Milton Keynes Anna Larke Chapter 5. Dancing With An Angel :What I have learnt from my "special needs" daughter, Elisa Elsa Dawson Chapter 6. Being Parented? Children and young people's engagement with parenting activities Julie Seymour and Sally McNamee PART III: CROSS-CULTURAL MOBILITY Chapter 7. Children's Moving Stories: How the children of British lifestyle migrants cope with super-diversity Karen O'Reilly Chapter 8. Children Negotiating Identity in Mallorca Jacqueline Waldren Chapter 9. Identity Without Birthright: Negotiating Children's Citizenship and Identity in Cross-Cultural Bureaucracy Ignacy-Marek Kaminski Chapter 10. Doing Fieldwork with Children in Japan Roger Goodman Notes on the Contributors Bibliography Index