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This book explores how rural children negotiate economic insecurity
and difference. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural
Australia, it shows that children draw on class-based ideas of
moral worth, anchored in racialised and gendered understandings, to
negotiate financial hardship and insecurity. Through close
observations in the classroom, school yard and the home, and
interviews with diverse young people, their parents and teachers,
Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods takes us deep into
children's everyday struggles and their efforts to manage
insecurity and belonging within a polarised economic landscape.
This book offers compelling new analysis of children's experiences
at a time of rapid and far-reaching change in rural communities and
the world at large. This unique and engaging ethnography of rural
Australia makes an important and timely contribution to wider
understandings of how children navigate the precarious
circumstances of the present.
Asian migration and mobilities are transforming education cultures
in the Anglosphere, prompting mounting debates about 'tiger
mothers' and 'dragon children', and competition and segregation in
Anglosphere schools. This book challenges the cultural essentialism
which prevails in much academic and popular discussion of 'Asian
success' and in relation to Asian education mobilities. As anxiety
and aspiration within these spaces are increasingly ethnicised, the
children of Asian migrants are both admired and resented for their
educational success. This book explores popular perceptions of
Asian migrant families through in-depth empirically informed
accounts on the broader economic, social, historical and
geo-political contexts within which education cultures are
produced. This includes contributions from academics on global
markets and national policies around migration and education,
classed trajectories and articulations, local formations of 'ethnic
capital', and transnational assemblages that produce education and
mobility as means for social advancement. At a time when our
schooling systems and communities are undergoing rapid
transformations as a result of increasing global mobility, this
book is a unique and important contribution to an issue of pressing
significance. This book was originally published as a special issue
of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
This book explores how rural children negotiate economic insecurity
and difference. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural
Australia, it shows that children draw on class-based ideas of
moral worth, anchored in racialised and gendered understandings, to
negotiate financial hardship and insecurity. Through close
observations in the classroom, school yard and the home, and
interviews with diverse young people, their parents and teachers,
Class, Culture and Belonging in Rural Childhoods takes us deep into
children's everyday struggles and their efforts to manage
insecurity and belonging within a polarised economic landscape.
This book offers compelling new analysis of children's experiences
at a time of rapid and far-reaching change in rural communities and
the world at large. This unique and engaging ethnography of rural
Australia makes an important and timely contribution to wider
understandings of how children navigate the precarious
circumstances of the present.
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