Childhood and migration from experience to agency

This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their host societies. What role does the cultural backg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Knörr, Jacqueline (Editor), Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- editor (editor)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2005
Bielefeld, Germany : [2015]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Kultur und Soziale Praxis
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424098906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Coming of Age as "The Third Generation." Children of Immigrants in Berlin 23 When German Children Come "Horne." Experiences of (Re-)migration to Germany- and some Remarks about the "TCK"-Issue 51 Leaving the Shtetl Behind. Children' s Literature on Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe 77 Displacement and Identity. The Memoirs of a Juvenile Deportee under Soviet Occupation 95 Children Making Media. Constructions of Horne and Belanging 113 Children Writing Migration. Views from a Southern Italian Mountain Village 137 Small Heroes. Rap Music and Se1ective Be1ongings of Young Haitian Immigrants in Montrea1 155 Limina1ity as Linguistic Process. Immigrant Youth and Experiences of Language in Germany and the United States 175 Childhood Dynamics in a Changing Culture. Examples from the Xavante People of Central Brazil 207 Contributors 227