Children and Borders

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Spyros Spyrou, Miranda Christou

      Pages 1-23

3. Children and Borderlands

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Experiencing the State and Negotiating Belonging in Zomia: Pa Koh and Bru-Van Kieu Ethnic Minority Youth in a Lao-Vietnamese Borderland

      • Trần Thị Hà Lan, Roy Huijsmans

      Pages 27-46

   3. ‘Anyone Who Welcomes a Little Child like this on My Behalf Is Welcoming Me’: A Case Study on Residential Child and Youth Care in the Mexican-American Border Zone

      • Sylvia Meichsner

      Pages 47-61

   4. Growing Up in a Portuguese Borderland

      • Sofia Marques da Silva

      Pages 62-77

4. Children, Borders and War

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Arrested in Place: Palestinian Children and Families at the Border

      • Bree Akesson

      Pages 81-98

   3. Destination Europe: Afghan Unaccompanied Minors Crossing Borders

      • Carla Buil, Melissa Siegel

      Pages 99-113

   4. Crossing Borders of Geography and Self: South Sudanese Refugee Youth Gangs in Egypt

      • Marisa O. Ensor

      Pages 114-128

5. Children and Contested Borders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. What is a Border? Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Children’s Understanding of a Contested Territorial Division

      • Miranda Christou, Spyros Spyrou

      Pages 131-148

   3. Palestinian ‘Children of the Junction’: Contested Borders and Representations

      • Omri Grinberg

      Pages 149-163

   4. Bordering in Transition: Young People’s Experiences in ‘Post-Conflict’ Belfast

      • Martina McKnight, Madeleine Leonard

      Pages 164-179

6. Children Crossing Borders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Criminals in Our Land! Border Movement and Apprehension of Children from Bangladesh Within the Juvenile Justice System in India

      • Chandni Basu

      Pages 183-199

   3. Crossing Borders and Borderlands: Childhood’s Secret Undergrounds

      • Sonja Arndt, Marek Tesar

      Pages 200-213

   4. Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Youth: Navigating Relational Borderlands

      • Stuart C. Aitken, Kate Swanson, Elizabeth G. Kennedy

      Pages 214-239

7. Children, Borders and Belonging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. When the Border Becomes a Threshold: Children’s Visits to Relatives in Santo Domingo

      • Livia Jiménez Sedano

      Pages 243-260

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders affect children's lives and how children play a constitutive role in the social life of borders.

• Children
• Childhood
• Borders
• Borderlands
• Border-crossing
• belonging
• care
• childhood
• children
• Familie
• identity
• migration
• Nation
• Transnational
• youth
• childhood studies

“This book provides plenty of evidence, including many photos, that new walls are constructed on many borders, to keep out those that would otherwise freely enter or to simply reinforce that ‘the other’ is not wanted. … The 15 chapters of this collection provide rich local insights. … The book as a whole makes intriguing reading … . The excellent index … helps busy users to locate keywords and specific scenarios quickly and effectively.” (Werner Menski, Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol. 30 (3), 2016)

“The work outlined within this particular volume provides fertile ground for further interdisciplinary exploration of how children engage with borders. … This volume enables the two fields of study to take a closer step to one another, enriching both in the process. … The collection brings together accounts that serve as an important starting point, calling researchers within these respective fields to attention.” (Allegra, allegralaboratory.net, November, 2015)

• European University Cyprus, Cyprus

  Spyros Spyrou, Miranda Christou

Stuart C. Aitken, San Diego State University, USA Bree Akesson, McGill University, Canada Sonja Arndt, University of Waikato, New Zealand Chandni Basu, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany Carla Buil, University College Maastricht, the Netherlands Merike Darmody, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Lisa M. Dorner, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Marisa O. Ensor, University of Tennessee, USA Omri Grinberg, University of Toronto, Canada Roy Huijsmans, International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands Livia Jiménez Sedano, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Elizabeth Kennedy, San Diego State University, USA Sujin Kim, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA Dagmar Kutsar, University of Tartu, Estonia Leana Lahesoo, University of Tartu, Estonia Madeleine Leonard is a Professor of Sociology at Queen's University, Northern Ireland Sofia Marques da Silva, University of Porto, Portugal Sylvia Meichsner, Open University, UK Martina McKnight, Queen's University, Northern Ireland Melissa Siegel, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Kate Swanson, San Diego State University, USA Marek Tesar, University of Auckland, New Zealand Tr?n Th? Hà Lan, independent researcher

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