This edited volume investigates the complexities of child refugees and migrants from a global perspective. With millions of young migrants and refugees worldwide, there is a need for novel understandings and conceptualizations of the impact of national policies affecting these children, as well as a thorough investigation of possible methodological dilemmas within research on and with migrant children and youth. This book addresses these in three parts. Part one examines the life experiences of child migrants and refugees with emphasis on how different forms of mobility shape them. Part two explores different contexts of education: How education directed at child migrants becomes organized, the specific educational needs that migrant children have, and the inclusion and possible exclusion of migrant children. Part three discusses and problematizes ethical dilemmas that research on and with migrant children and young people awakens. Foregrounding nuanced perspectives from the “Global South”—or the “world majority”—often ignored in traditional migration research, this book fills a crucial gap in childhood and youth studies as well as migration research.
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 Swedens Ungrievable Children:
The Self-Perceived Champion of Childrens Rights that Closed its Borders.-
11. Children-focused research methodology in migration context: triangulating
techniques, social actors, and perspectives.- 12. Learning About
International Childrens Transnational Experiences in Finland.- Through
Participatory Photography: An Experiment with Limited Success.-
13. Epilogue
- Mobilum, Ergo Sum.
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.
