Adolescent Girls' Migration in The Global South Transitions into Adulthood /

• Main Authors: Grabska, Katarzyna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), de Regt, Marina (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Del Franco, Nicoletta (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
• Subjects: Economic development.; Youth in development.; Emigration and immigration.; Social change.; Women in development.; Development and Children.; Migration.; Development and Social Change.; Regional Development.; Development and Gender.

This book provides a nuanced, complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls' migration and mobility in the Global South. The stories and the narratives of migrant girls collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sudan guide the readers in drawing the contours of their lives on the move, a comple...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Girls, Transitions and Migration
• 2. Doing Research among Migrant and Refugee Girls
• 3. 3. Situating Girls' Migration in Three Contexts
• 4. Becoming a Migrant, Becoming a Refugee
• 5. Life in the Cities
• 6. Risks, Threats and Set-backs
• 7. Being Protected and Protecting Yourself
• 8. Surviving, Resisting and Moving Forward
• 9. Beyond Survival: The Wider Impact of Girls' Migration
• 10. Transitions and Transformations.