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

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Children, Youth, and the Everyday Ruptures of Migration 1 Deborah A. Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, Cati Coe, Heather Rae-Espinoza, and Rachel R. Reynolds Part I. Child Agency/Adult Power: Negotiating Movement and New Identities 1 Children’s Agency in Family Migration Decision Making in Britain 23 Naomi Tyrrell 2 “For Tibet”: Youth, Hip-Hop, and Transforming the Tibetan Global Imaginary 39 Julia Meredith Hess Part II. Social Reproduction: Family and Kinship across Borders and Generations 3 Transnational Fosterage: The Novel Care Arrangements between Guinean Caregivers and Ivorian and Liberian Children Fleeing War 63 Susan Shepler 4 Modes of Transnational Relatedness: Caribbean Migrants’Networks of Child Care and Ritual Kinship 79 Maarit Forde vi Part III. The Circulation of Affect: Emotion, Children, and Global Flows 5 How Children Feel about Their Parents’ Migration: A History of the Reciprocity of Care in Ghana 97 Cati Coe 6 The Children of Émigrés in Ecuador: Narratives of Cultural Reproduction and Emotion in Transnational Social Fields 115 Heather Rae-Espinoza Part IV. Status and the State: State Power, Migrant Responses, and Constructions of Childhood 7 Schooling and the Everyday Ruptures Transnational Children Encounter in the United States and Mexico 141 Edmund T. Hamann and Víctor Zúñiga 8 Here/Not Here: Contingent Citizenship and Transnational Mexican Children 161 Deborah A. Boehm 9 The Transnationally Affected: Spanish State Policies and the Life-Course Events of Families in North Africa 174 Núria Empez Vidal Notes 189 Bibliography 195 Contributors 221 Index 223 ...