Immigration and Children's Literature: Stories, Social Justice, and Critical Consciousness

by Wilma Robles-Melendez and Audrey Henry

This book explores the issues faced by immigrant children through the lens of children's literature. The authors employ the UN convention of the Rights of the Child, the lens of equity, and Freire's principles of critical consciousness as a framework for analysing children's literature and immigration. They focus on circumstances and experiences of immigration from the perspective of young children who are leaving their homelands and growing up...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350255912
• ISBN13: 9781350255913
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"