Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
About the Contributors......Page 10
Introduction: Migrant Children at the Crossroads......Page 18
Part I: Understanding Migrant Children: Research, Voice, and Representation......Page 30
1 Understanding Migrant Children: Conceptualizations, Approaches, and Issues......Page 32
2 Migrant Children in Haiti: Domestic Labor and the Politics of Representation......Page 53
3 At the Crossroads of Childhood, Media, and Migration......Page 71
Part II: Reviewing Policies: Taking Responsibility for the Rights of Migrant Children......Page 94
4 The Production of Criminal Migrant Children: Surveillance, Detention, and Deportation in France......Page 96
5 Protecting the Rights of Internally Displaced Children......Page 114
6 Without Face or Future: Stateless Infants, Children, and Youth......Page 134
Part III: Rethinking Practices: Creating Spaces for Agency......Page 158
7 Unaccompanied Minors at the Crossroads in British Columbia: Migration and Trafficking......Page 160
8 In the Best Interest of the Child: Perceptions, Responses, and Challenges in Providing Assistance to Trafficked Children in the United States......Page 183
9 Social Mobility in Children’s Mobility? An Investigation into Child Circulation among the Maasai of Kenya......Page 204
Part IV: Searching for New Opportunities: Working and Learning in a New Land......Page 224
10 Migrating with Honor: Sites of Agency and Power in Child Labor Migration in Bangladesh......Page 226
11 Transnational Students’ Perspectives on Schooling in the United States and Mexico: The Salience of School Experience and Country of Birth......Page 247
12 Children of Migrant Heritage and Equality of Opportunity in France......Page 270
The Way Forward: Conclusions and Recommendations......Page 291
Index......Page 298