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Children and Youth on the Front Line - Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement (Paperback)
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Children and Youth on the Front Line - Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement (Paperback)
Series: Forced Migration
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"This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a
challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations
. . . especially] to those who wish to make a black and white
distinction between children and adults." ?- Children, Youth and
Environments War leads not just to widespread death but also to
extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic
devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival
and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most
vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers
of young people, undermines thousands of others psychologically and
deprives many of the economic, educational, health and social
opportunities which most of us consider essential for children's
effective growth and well being. Based on detailed ethnographic
description and on young people's own accounts, this volume
provides insights into children's experiences as both survivors and
perpetrators of violence. It focuses on girls who have been exposed
to sexual exploitation and abuse, children who head households or
are separated from their families, displaced children and young
former combatants who are attempting to adjust to their changed
circumstances following the cessation of conflict. In this sense,
the volume bears witness to the grim effects of warfare and
displacement on the young. Nevertheless, despite the abundant
evidence of suffering, it maintains that children are not the
passive victims of conflict but engage actively with the conditions
of war, an outlook that challenges orthodox research perspectives
that rely heavily on medicalized notions of 'victim' and 'trauma.'
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