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Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe

Beschreibung

This collection explores mobile childhoods: from Latvia and Estonia to Finland; from Latvia to the United Kingdom; from Russia to Finland; and cyclical mobility by the Roma between Romania and Finland. The chapters examine how east-to-north European family mobility brings out different kinds of multilocal childhoods. The children experience unequal starting points and further twists throughout their childhood and within their family lives.

Through the innovative use of ethnographic and participatory methods, the contributors demonstrate how diverse migrant children's everyday lives are, and how children themselves as well as their translocal families actively pursue better lives. The topics include naming and food practices, travel, schooling, summer holidays, economic and other inequalities, and the importance of age in understanding children's lives.

Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe will be of interest to students and scholarsacross a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology and human geography.

Autor

Laura Assmuth is Professor of Social and Public Policy at the University of Eastern Finland. Marina Hakkarainen is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland and Associated Fellow at the  European University at St. Petersburg, Russia. Aija Lulle is Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Pihla Maria Siim is Junior Research Fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia. 

Produktdetails

• Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-89733-2
• 1st edition 2018
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9783319897332
• ISBN-10: 3319897330
• Artikelnr.: 51574329

Rezensionen

"This is an excellent read for anyone interested in childhood studies and migration. ... the book provided me with a level of insight that I did not expect, but thoroughly enjoyed." (Nina Svane Bruhn, Nordic Journal of Migration Research NJMR, Vol. 9 (3), 2019)

"Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe is an important contribution to the literature on both migration and mobility and the field of childhood and youth studies. It addresses many methodological and ethical considerations when doing ethnographic research of children and their families." (Frank Elbers, Analize, Issue 10, 2018)