Synopses & Reviews
When people -- whether children, youth, and adults -- migrate, that migration is often perceived as a rupture, with people separated by great distances and for extended periods of time. But for migrants and those affected by migration, the everyday persists, and migration itself may be critical to the continuation of social life. Everyday Ruptures illuminates the wide-ranging continuities and disruptions in the experiences of children around the world, those who participate in and those who are affected by migration.
The book is organized around four themes:
- how children's agency is affected by institutions, families, and beliefs
- how families and individuals create and maintain kin ties in conditions of rupture
- how emotion and affect are linked to global divisions and flows
- how the actions of states create ruptures and continuities
Review
"In
Everyday Ruptures, a group of international, interdisciplinary scholars illuminate the crucial migration experiences of children and youth. Their essays introduce us to a fascinating variety of migration worlds, ranging from Britain to Ghana, Ecuador, Mexico and more. The volume vividly contributes to our understanding of globalization's human impact."
--Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University, author of Economic
Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy
Synopsis
Ethnographies of children and youth who migrate and are affected by the migration of others
About the Author
Cati Coe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Rachel R. Reynolds is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University. Deborah A. Boehm is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Nevada-Reno. Julia Meredith Hess is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Prevention and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico. Heather Rae-Espinoza is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development, California State University-Long Beach.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction: Children, Youth, and the Everyday Ruptures of Migration
Deborah A. Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, Cati Coe, Heather Rae-Espinoza, and Rachel R. Reynolds
Children's Agency in Family Decision Making in Britain
Naomi Tyrrell
"For Tibet": Youth, Hip-Hop, and Transforming the Tibetan Global Imaginary
Julia Meredith Hess
Transnational Fosterage: The Novel Care Arrangements between Guinean Caregivers and Ivorian and Liberian Children Fleeing War
Susan Shepler
Modes of Transnational Relatedness: Caribbean Migrants' Networks of Child Care and Ritual Kinship
Maarit Forde
How Children Feel about Their Parents' Migration: A History of the Reciprocity of Care in Ghana
Cati Coe
The Children of Emigres in Ecuador: Narratives of Cultural Reproduction and Emotion in Transnational Social Fields
Heather Rae-Espinoza
Schooling and the Everyday Ruptures Transnational Children Encounter in the United States and Mexico
Edmund T. Hamann and Victor A. Zuniga
Here/Not Here: Contingent Citizenship and Transnational Mexican Children
Deborah A. Boehm
The Transnationally Affected: Spanish State Policies and the Life-Course Events of Families in North Africa
Nuria Empez Vidal