Everyday Ruptures: Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective

Contributors

221 Contributors Deborah A. Boehm is an assistant professor of anthropology and women’s studies at the University of Nevada, Reno (U.S.). Her research with transnational Mexicans has focused on children and youth, transnational and mixed-status families, and gender relations. She is currently conducting a project about deportation and return migration. Cati Coe is an associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, Camden (U.S.). She is working on a book on Ghanaian transnational families tentatively titled “The Scattered Family: Love, Loss, and International Migration in Ghana.” She is the author of The Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge (2005). Núria Empez Vidal is an associate professor in the Department of Pedagogy, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), and a PhD candidate in anthropology in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She is working on a dissertation about unaccompanied minors migrating from Morocco to Spain. Maarit Forde is an anthropologist lecturing at the University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago). She is interested in the role of religion and ritual in transnational migration as well as in the politics of religion. Her recent publications include articles on these topics and a volume entitled Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion, coedited with Diana Paton, to be published by Duke University Press. Edmund T. “Ted” Hamann is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of ­ Nebraska– Lincoln (U.S.) and a visiting professor and associated researcher with the­ Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Educación y Superación de Pobreza (CIESESP) at the Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico). He has coauthored Alumnos transnacionales: Las escuelas mexicanas frente a la globalización (2009), The Educational Welcome of Latinos in the New South (2003), and Education in the New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity (2002). 222 Everyday Ruptures Julia Meredith Hess is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico’s Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Prevention and Population­ Sciences and a research adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology (U.S.). She is the author of Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora (2009). Heather Rae-Espinoza is an assistant professor in the Human Development Department at California State University, Long Beach (U.S.). Her research with the children of émigrés in Ecuador focuses on cultural internalization, mental well-being, and the changes in rhetoric surrounding migration. Rachel R. Reynolds is an associate professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University (U.S.). She studies ideologies of language in immigrant communities, motivations for language learning, and bilingual families, especially among West African immigrants. Susan Shepler is an assistant professor in the Department of International Peace and Conflict Resolution in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. (U.S.). Her research interests include the reintegration of former child soldiers in Africa, youth and conflict, refugee education, and transitional justice. She has worked as a research consultant for the International Rescue Committee, Search for Common Ground, and UNICEF. Naomi Tyrrell (née Bushin) is a lecturer in social geography at the School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth (U.K.). In addition to her work on child migration in Britain, she has recently completed the EU-funded Migrant Children Project with colleagues at University College Cork, Ireland, and is currently working on two books related to this research: Childhood and Migration in Europe: Four Portraits from Ireland (Ashgate Press) and Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children and Youth in Ireland (Sense Publications). Víctor Zúñiga is dean of the School of Education and Humanities at the Universidad de Monterrey (Nuevo León, Mexico) and a visiting professor in the School of Education at the Université de Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada) and the department of sociology at the Université de Provence (France). A Level III member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores in the Social Sciences, some of his recent publications include Alumnos trans­ nacio­ nales: Las escuelas mexicanas frente a la globalización (2009) and New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States (2005). ...