ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the narratives of Honduran children fleeing violence from Honduras, the largest of the devastated countries in the Central America Northern Triangle (CANT) region, who migrate to Barcelona (Spain) with family members, an alternative to the increasingly conflict-ridden route to the US. Data was obtained through fieldwork in two schools and neighbourhoods in economically disadvantaged areas in Barcelona, where semi-structured interviews incorporating child-oriented techniques were conducted. The conditions that trigger new forms of displacement out of Honduras are reconstructed by focusing on the children’s accounts of violence and of families’ coping strategies in their migration and settlement processes, including the ‘collective child rearing arrangements’ that operate locally and transnationally. The challenges encountered by these children in Barcelona as well as their future aspirations also reveal how they make sense of home and mobility. By locating children at the centre of emerging (im)mobility patterns in a global context of growing violence this work aims to contribute to scholarship on transnational families.
