Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability

By Marisa O. Ensor

PART I: INTRODUCTION Migrant Children at the Crossroads; M.O.Ensor & E.M.Go?dziak PART II: UNDERSTANDING MIGRANT CHILDREN: RESEARCH, VOICE AND REPRESENTATION Understanding Migrant Children: Conceptualizations, Approaches and Issues; M.O.Ensor Child Migration in Haiti: Domestic Labor and the Politics of Representation; D.M.Hoffman At the Crossroads of Childhood, Media and Migration; L.de Block & D.Buckingham PART III: REVIEWING POLICIES: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANT CHILDREN The Production of Criminal Migrant Children: Surveillance, Detention, and Deportation in France; S.Terrio Protecting the Rights of Internally Displaced Children; E.Ferris Without Face or Future: Stateless Infants, Children, and Youth; M.Lynch PART IV: RETHINKING PRACTICES: CREATING SPACES FOR AGENCY Unaccompanied Minors at the Crossroads in British Columbia: Migration and Trafficking; R.E.Pike In the Best Interest of the Child: Perceptions, Responses and Challenges in Providing Assistance to Trafficked Children in the United States; E.M.Go?dziak Social Mobility in Children's Mobility? An Investigation into Child Circulation among the Maasai of Kenya; C.Archambault PART V: SEARCHING FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES: WORKING AND LEARNING IN A NEW LAND Migrating with Honor: Sites of Agency and Power in Child's Labor Migration in Bangladesh; K.Heissler Transnational Students' Perspectives on Schooling in the US and Mexico: The Salience of School Experience and Country of Birth; T.Hamann, V.Z??iga & J.S?nchez Garc?a Children of Migrant Heritage and Equality of Opportunity in France Migrants in France; L.J.Limage PART VI: CONCLUSIONS The Way Forward: Conclusions and Recommendations; E.M.Go?dziak & M.O.Ensor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349323322
• ISBN13: 9781349323326
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"