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Children on the Move in Africa - Past and Present Experiences of Migration (Hardcover)
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Children on the Move in Africa - Past and Present Experiences of Migration (Hardcover)
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A timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective
on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of
children themselves to look at where, why and how they move -
within and beyond the continent - andthe impact of African child
migration globally. Children in Africa are heavily involved in
migration but we know too little about the circumstances in which
they migrate, their motivations and the impact of migration on
their welfare, on wider society and in a global context. This book
seeks to retrieve the experiences of child migrants, and to examine
how child migration differs from adult migration and whether the
condition of childhood pushes individuals towards specific
migratory trajectories. It also examines the opportunities that
child migrants seek elsewhere, the lack of opportunities that make
them move elsewhere and to what extent their trajectories and
strategies are gendered. Analysing the diversity and complexity of
children's experiences of mobility in Ghana, Madagascar, Mali,
Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Togo and Zambia, the authors
look at patterns of fosterage, child circulation within Africa and
beyond the continent; therole of education, child labour and
conceptions of place and "home"; and the place of the child
narrator in migrant fiction. Comparing different methodological and
theoretical approaches and setting the case studies within the
broader context of family migration, transnational families,
colonial and postcolonial migration politics, religious encounter
and globalization in Africa, this book provides a much-needed
examination of this contentious and criticalissue. Elodie Razy is
Associate Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the
University of Liege (FaSS). She is the co-founder and co-editor of
the online journal AnthropoChildren: Ethnographic Perspectivesin
Children & Childhood. Marie Rodet is a Senior Lecturer in
African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies
(University of London). She is currently working on her second
monograph on slave resistance in Kayes,Mali.
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