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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-78204-623-2

Content: Children in Africa are heavily involved in migration but we know too little about the circumstances in which they migrate, their motivations and the impact of migration on their welfare, on wider society and in a global context. This book seeks to retrieve the experiences of child migrants, and to examine how child migration differs from adult migration and whether the condition of childhood pushes individuals towards specific migratory trajectories. It also examines the opportunities that child migrants seek elsewhere, the lack of opportunities that make them move elsewhere and to what extenttheir trajectories and strategies are gendered.〈BR〉 Analysing the diversity and complexity of children's experiences of mobility in Ghana, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Togo and Zambia, the authors look at patterns of fosterage, child circulation within Africa and beyond the continent; the role of education, child labour and conceptions of place and "home"; and the place of the child narrator in migrant fiction. Comparing different methodological and theoretical approaches and setting the case studies within the broader context of family migration, transnational families, colonial and postcolonial migration politics, religious encounter and globalization in Africa, this book provides a much-needed examination of this contentious and critical issue.〈BR〉〈BR〉 Elodie Razy is Assistant Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Liege (FaSS). She is the co-founder and co-editor of the online journal 〈I〉AnthropoChildren: Ethnographic Perspectives in Children & Childhood〈/I〉. Marie Rodet is a Senior Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). She is currently working on her secondmonograph on slave resistance in Kayes, Mali.〈BR〉〈BR〉

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017). , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgements -- , Introduction -- , Part I CHILD MIGRANTS IN AFRICA: BEYOND THE DILEMMA OF VULNERABILITY v. AGENCY -- , 1 ‘An Ardent Desire to be Useful’ -- , 2 Girl Pawns, Brides & Slaves -- , Part II BEING A CHILD & BECOMING A GENDERED ADULT: THE CHALLENGES OF MIGRATIONS IN CHILDHOOD -- , 3 ‘Bringing a Girl From the Village’ -- , 4 ‘I Will Never Become a Crocodile but I am Happy if I Eat Enough -- , 5 Working as a ‘Boy’ -- , Part III MOBILITY, IMAGINATION & MAKING NATIONS -- , 6 Childhood, Space & Memory -- , 7 ‘We Were Mixed with All Types’ -- , 8 India–South Africa Mobilities in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- , 9 Education, Migration & Nationalism -- , 10 Child Narration as a Device for Negotiating Space & Identity Formation in Recent Nigerian Migrant Fiction -- , Bibliography -- , Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-84701-138-1

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

DOI: 10.1515/9781782046233

URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782046233/type/BOOK