ISBN:
9780415818063
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (141 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Children in Crisis : Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Child welfare - Research
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their young, at-risk inhabitants. Looking at the lived experiences of poverty, drastic inequality, displacement, ecological degradation and war in countries including Haiti, Argentina and Palestine, the book shows how children both respond to and are shaped by their circumstances. Going beyond conventional im
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Children in Crisis; Children and the Street; Less Visible Childhoods; Childhoods in Context; References; 1. Street Children, AIDS Orphans, and Unprotected Minors: What You Read Is Not What You See; Defining Street Children; Counting Street Children; Thoughts on Cause and Effect; Coping and Resilience; Deviance and Normativity; Street Children, Their Families, andTheir Social Contexts; Problems in Collecting Data with Street Children; Representing Street Children throughan Ethnographic Lens; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
References2. Longitudinal Repeated Ethnography: Theoretical Implications for a Cultural, Social Class and Gendered Understanding of Children on the Streets in Kenya; Introduction; Girls in Harsh Circumstances; Gender, Children, and Social Class: Historical Constraints; Work Activities; Girls on the Streets and Sexual Morality; Symbolic Sympathy: Begging, Babies, and Glue Bottles; The Enduring Street: Gendered Post-Childhood Transitions; Ethnography; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Refugees in the Middle East: Identity Politics among Sahrawi, Palestinian, and Afghan Youth
Description / Table of Contents:
Background to this Comparative StudyTheories of Child Development and Prolonged Forced Migration; Research Methodology; Historical Context; Similarities and Differences: Palestinian, Afghan, and Sahrawi Case Studies; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4. No Balm in Gilead: Childhood, Suffering, and Survival in Haiti; Mother's Milk; Being in Anguish; Suffer the Children; "The Sugar in My Coffee"; Childhood of Another Order; Under the Gun; A Quiet, Domiciled Pain; What Value that Child?; Notes; References; 5. Children at Toxic Risk; Ethnographic Snapshots; Environment and Destitution
Description / Table of Contents:
Argentina's Great TransformationThe Riachuelo, the Petrochemical Compound, and Villa Inflamable; Toxic Confusion; Young Views: Luisa's Suffering and Shell's Denial; "Something Strange is Going on Here"; The Dirty Makings of Durable Inequality; Notes; References; 6. (Im)permeable Boundaries: Why Integration into Affluent White-Majority Schools for Low-Income Minority Students is Elusive; Introduction; Social and Symbolic Boundaries: The Case of a Desegregated, Multiracial School; The School Setting
Description / Table of Contents:
Multiple Dimensions of Boundaries for Low-Income Racial and Ethnic Minority Students in an Affluent SchoolIs "Integration" an Elusive Project?; Notes; References; Contributors; Index
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Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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