ABSTRACT
This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates children’s experiences, views, priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents in their own migration.
Using a great variety of methodologies (archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews) and sources (drawings, documents produced by governments and experts, films and press), the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within Europe, both West (Belgium, France, Germany) and East (Romania, Russia, Ukraine), South (Italy, Portugal, Turkey) and North (Sweden), enabling a deep understanding of the diversity of migrant childhoods in the European context.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Displacement
chapter 2|18 pages
The little people of the exodus
chapter 3|13 pages
The (bio)politics of relief
chapter 5|18 pages
“Unaccompanied children who disappear”
part II|77 pages
Retention
chapter 7|21 pages
The never forgotten Romanian children
chapter 9|16 pages
Imprisoned to ‘zoē’
part III|60 pages
Repatriation