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

by Cati Coe (Editor), Rachel R. Reynolds (Editor), Deborah A. Boehm (Editor), Julia Meredith Hess (Editor), Heather Rae-Espinoza (Editor)

Overview

When people—whether children, youth, or 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826517487
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Cati Coe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Deborah A. Boehm is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Nevada-Reno.

Heather Rae-Espinoza is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development, California State University-Long Beach.

Julia Meredith Hess is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Prevention and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico.

Rachel R. Reynolds is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University.

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

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