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Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of
migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal
status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during,
and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that
places unaccompanied migrant children at the center. This volume
gathers international experts from the fields of social work,
social science, law, philosophy, and Catholic ethics. Social
science, psychological, and social work studies, analyses of US and
international law of child migration, refuge and asylum policies,
and several case studies regarding law enforcement highlight the
more recent shifts in policies both in the United States and
Europe. The current policies are confronted with two major
normative frameworks that go beyond migration laws or the
international refugee and asylum provisions: the United Nations
Convention of the Rights of the Child, and the approach of the
Catholic social ethics of migration. The authors address the
challenges of childhood under the conditions of migration: the
uprooting of lives, the journey and transition into foreign
countries and cultures, and the transition into adulthood. They
discern the legal provisions and obstacles of the immigration
process, the securitization of the borders, and the criminalization
of unaccompanied migrant children. Catholic social ethics, the
theological authors argue, must offer more than its pastoral call
for charity, solidarity, and compassion that is already in place,
inspiring multiple Catholic organizations, groups, and individuals.
The Christian emphasis on family rights and values, originating in
the story of the Holy Family, is necessary, yet insufficient when
children are separated from their parents-instead, children must be
recognized as vulnerable agents in their own right, and the moral
dilemmas families sometimes face be acknowledged. US and European
policies must be informed by the interpretation of justice, and the
principle of the common good must be held against the firewalling
of the West. As a political ethics, Catholic social ethics must
critique and reject the use of the Christian religion for
nationalist policies and depictions of migrant children as a threat
to the cultural identity of Western societies.
Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by
numerous contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide
range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge
that urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective
and transformative practice. It is necessary for teachers in urban
schools to be scholar-practitioners, as opposed to bureaucrats who
only follow rather than analyze, understand, and create. Ten major
sections cover the myriad issues of urban education as it exists
today: context of urban education, race and ethnicity, social
justice, teaching and pedagogy, power and urban education, language
issues, cultural issues of urban schools as seen in the media,
research in city schools, aesthetics and the proximity of cultural
institutions, and education policy. Sixty one essays written by
specialists in teacher education; public policy; sociology;
psychology; applied linguistics; forestry; urban studies; school
administration; cultural studies; evaluation; and linguistics,
provide a blueprint for scholars, teachers, parents, urban
politicians, school administrators, policy professionals, and
others seeking to understand the situation of urban schools across
America today.
Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of
migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal
status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during,
and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that
places unaccompanied migrant children at the center. This volume
gathers international experts from the fields of social work,
social science, law, philosophy, and Catholic ethics. Social
science, psychological, and social work studies, analyses of US and
international law of child migration, refuge and asylum policies,
and several case studies regarding law enforcement highlight the
more recent shifts in policies both in the United States and
Europe. The current policies are confronted with two major
normative frameworks that go beyond migration laws or the
international refugee and asylum provisions: the United Nations
Convention of the Rights of the Child, and the approach of the
Catholic social ethics of migration. The authors address the
challenges of childhood under the conditions of migration: the
uprooting of lives, the journey and transition into foreign
countries and cultures, and the transition into adulthood. They
discern the legal provisions and obstacles of the immigration
process, the securitization of the borders, and the criminalization
of unaccompanied migrant children. Catholic social ethics, the
theological authors argue, must offer more than its pastoral call
for charity, solidarity, and compassion that is already in place,
inspiring multiple Catholic organizations, groups, and individuals.
The Christian emphasis on family rights and values, originating in
the story of the Holy Family, is necessary, yet insufficient when
children are separated from their parents-instead, children must be
recognized as vulnerable agents in their own right, and the moral
dilemmas families sometimes face be acknowledged. US and European
policies must be informed by the interpretation of justice, and the
principle of the common good must be held against the firewalling
of the West. As a political ethics, Catholic social ethics must
critique and reject the use of the Christian religion for
nationalist policies and depictions of migrant children as a threat
to the cultural identity of Western societies.
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