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Record Nr.

UNISA996308807903316

Autore

Knörr Jacqueline

Titolo

Childhood and migration : from experience to agency / / edited by Jacqueline Knörr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2005

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-8394-0384-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228)

Collana

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Disciplina

371.82691

Soggetti

Immigrant children

Emigration and immigration - Psychological aspects

Social history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Eastem Europe    77  Displacement and Identity. The Memoirs of a Juvenile Deportee under Soviet Occupation    95  Children Making Media. Constmctions of Horne and Belanging    113  Children Writing Migration. Views from a Southem ltalian Mountain Village    137  Small Heroes. Rap Music and Se1ective Be1ongings of Y oung Haitian Immigrants in Montrea1    155  Limina1ity as Linguistic Process. Immigrant Y outh and Experiences of Langnage in Germany and the United States    175  Childhood Dynamics in a Changing Culture. Examples from the Xavante People of Central Brazil    207  Contributors    227

Sommario/riassunto

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 background of the society of origin on the one hand and the strategies of integration found in the host society on the other play in the creation of identity and of a concept of home, origin and belonging? How do children express processes of cultural orientation and integration (music, media, fashion, style) and what role do peer groups and social milieus play in this regard? How do migrant children experience xenophobia and a lack of acceptance on the side of the host society and how do they counter-balance such experiences?  The approach taken is both comparative and interdisciplinary, the contributors having different theoretical and methodological backgrounds, the contributions dealing with different social and cultural settings both with regard to place of origin and host society.

Besprochen in:    Int. Migration & Integration, 23.10.2007, Anna Kirova  Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 131 (2006), Ulrike Bieker