Childhood, Youth and Migration: Connecting Global and Local Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Childhood, Youth and Migration: Connecting Global and Local Perspectives – Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Can we Compare Children’s Well-being Across Countries? Lessons from the Children’s Worlds Study....Pages 15-29
Do Muslim Girls Really Need Saving? Boundary-Making and Gender in Swiss Schools....Pages 31-47
Children’s Conceptions of Otherness: Constructions of the ‘Moral Self’ and Implications for Experiences of Migration....Pages 49-62
Acquiring Agency: Children’s Perspective Within the Context of Migration in Germany....Pages 63-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
‘It’s Hard to Blend in’: Everyday Experiences of Schooling Achievement, Migration and Neoliberal Education Policy....Pages 83-99
Ethnic Difference and Inequality. An Ethnographic Study of Early Childhood Educational Organizations.....Pages 101-113
Educational Inequality in Migrant Children in China: From Visible Exclusion to Invisible Discrimination....Pages 115-132
(Temporary) Educational Integration of School-Age Children in the Context of Multiple and Multidirectional Migration: A Critical Challenge for the European Union and Its Member States....Pages 133-151
Education: Children and Youths in Rural Areas: A German Perspective....Pages 153-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Making Sense of the Smell of Bangladesh....Pages 169-183
Qualities of Childhood: Kyrgyz Preschoolers Between Local Exigencies and Global Promises....Pages 185-201
From Access to Post-access Concerns: Rethinking Inclusion in Education Through Children’s Everyday School Attendance in Rural Malaysia....Pages 203-221
Transgenerational Culture Transfer as Social Constructions in Intergenerational Relationships....Pages 223-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
‘Blood Always Finds a Way Home’: AIDS Orphanhood and the Transformation of Kinship, Fosterage, and Children’s Circulation Strategies in Uganda....Pages 245-259
Transnational Childhood and the Globalization of Intimacy....Pages 261-271
Back to Baku: Educational Mobility Experiences of Two Young Azerbaijanis and Identity Positionings Back ‘Home’....Pages 273-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-295