Rethinking Childhoods and Migrations

Kerstin von Brömssen is Senior Professor of Educational Science in the Department of Social and Behavioral Studies at University West, Sweden.Live Stretmo is Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies of the Masters Program in Child and Youth Studies at University of Gothenberg, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction.- Theme I Experiences of Migrant Children and Young People.- 2. The role of language competences in building relationships in local and transnational settings: the perspectives of CEE-born children and young people living in Sweden.- 3. The Experience of Living as a Forced Migrant for Life: Voices of Mothers and their Children in Limpopo Valley of Gaza Province.- 4. Becoming a well-integrated migrant in Sweden: Young Afghans narratives of respectable versus bad migrants.- Theme II Macro and Educational System Analysis.- 5. Rethinking the Education for children in forced displacement; a specific focus on children under forced displacement in the Horn of Africa.- 6. Teacher Professionalism and Work Condition in Emergency Settings: Instances from ‘Host Countries’ of Africa and the Middle East.- 7. Emerging Educational Opportunities within Language Barriers for Refugee Children in Indonesia.- 8. On hosting and being hostile. Italy and its dis-connected youth.- 9. Applying Ubuntu to the Statelessness Crisis: Protecting Migrant Children in South Africa.- Theme III Ethics and Methodology.- 10. Researching and Representing Sweden’s Ungrievable Children: The Self-Perceived Champion of Children’s Rights that Closed its Borders.- 11. Children-focused research methodology in migration context: triangulating techniques, social actors, and perspectives.- 12. Learning About International Children’s Transnational Experiences in Finland.- Through Participatory Photography: An Experiment with Limited Success.- 13. Epilogue - Mobilum, Ergo Sum.