Children's Lives in Southern Europe

Edited by Lourdes Gaitán, Founding Member, Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence Group (GSIA), Secretary, Committee of Sociology of Childhood (FES) and Co-director, Sociedad e Infancias Journal, Spain, Yannis Pechtelidis, Associate Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Thessaly, Greece, Catarina Tomás, Assistant Professor, Lisbon Polytechnic Institute and Researcher, Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), Portugal and Natália Fernandes, Assistant Professor, University of Minho and Researcher, Research Centre on Child Studies (CIEC), Portugal

'Children's Lives in Southern Europe is an insightful, well-written, and timely volume focusing on a neglected but radically changing region of Europe. The diverse chapters provide comprehensive discussion of children's lives and agency at the macro and micro level with important insights for social policy. A ground-breaking work in childhood studies.'--William A. Corsaro, Author of The Sociology of Childhood and We're Friends, Right?: Inside Kids' Culture'This book offers an essential contribution to understanding the challenges faced by children in Southern Europe through the years of ''austerity'' and the ''refugee crisis''. The four editors combine a deep understanding of their own countries with a powerful theoretical orientation to taking children seriously as social actors and as citizens. The combination of detailed contextual information with vivid case studies is a real strength. For anyone with an interest in the reality of childhood, and the prospects for children's lives, in Southern Europe this will be an invaluable source of information and ideas.'--Nigel Patrick Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, UK'This book presents a rich and stimulating collection of contributions on a neglected focus in the English speaking world. The chapters provide a fresh and rewarding exploration of children's lives in Southern Europe; especially children's well-being, experiences of migration and poverty. The book draws on theory, primary and secondary data and will be an invaluable resource for students wishing to understand childhood in the Mediterranean arena.'--Tom Cockburn, Edge Hill University, UK

• Contents:Foreword: childhood and social exclusion – a sociology of the south? xiiiManuel Jacinto Sarmento1 Introduction 1Lourdes GaitánPART I CURRENT CHANGES IN CHILDREN’SFORMS OF LIVING2 Introduction to Part I 11Catarina Tomás3 Family and childhood: the impact of the crisis in the caseof Greece 14Foteini Kougioumoutzaki4 Institutionalization and familization of childhood throughleisure/sport activities in Italy 30Caterina Satta5 Changes to children’s forms of living in contemporary Portugal 47Ana Nunes de Almeida and Vasco Ramos6 Intergenerational solidarity in times of crisis: newrelationships between children and grandparents in Spain 62Lourdes Gaitán and María Sánchez-DomínguezPART II CHILD POVERTY AND CHILDREN’SWELL-BEING IN SOUTHERN EUROPE7 Introduction to Part II 84Natália Fernandes8 Poverty, well-being and educational opportunities forchildren in contemporary Greece: the cases of twoafter-school programmes 88Yannis Pechtelidis and Stelios Pantazidis9 Poorest of all: a case study of Roma children in Italy 104Maria Teresa Tagliaventi10 Child poverty in Portugal: the crisis from children’s perspectives 121Manuel Jacinto Sarmento and Gabriela de Pina Trevisan11 Austerity and children’s well-being in Spain: a capabilityapproach perspective 141Lucía del Moral-Espín and Mónica Domínguez-SerranoPART III MIGRANT CHILDREN AND CHILDREN ON THE MOVE12 Introduction to Part III 161Yannis Pechtelidis13 Language education policy discourses on refugeechildren: evidence from the Greek context 164Anastasia G. Stamou and Angeliki Kiliari14 Unaccompanied minors in Sicily: promotingconceptualizations of child well-being through children’sown subjective realities 181Ravinder Barn, Roberta T. Di Rosa and Gabriella Argento15 Migrant children in Portuguese schools: the case ofBrazilian pupils 196Teresa Seabra and Sandra Mateus16 Migrant children and local policies regarding reunifiedchildren in Spain 213Elisa BreyPART IV CONCLUSIONS17 Conclusions 232Lourdes Gaitán, Yannis Pechtelidis, Catarina Tomásand Natália FernandesIndex 237