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oapen-20.500.12657-633052024-03-28T08:18:55Z Children Crossing Borders Josiowicz, Alejandra J. Coronado, Irasema Social Science Emigration & Immigration Political Science World Caribbean & Latin American Social Science Children's Studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSP Age groups and generations::JBSP1 Age groups: children The Americas are witnessing an era of unprecedented human mobility. With their families or unaccompanied, children are part of this immense movement of people. Children Crossing Bordersexplores the different meanings of the lives of borderland children in the Americas. It addresses migrant children’s struggle to build a sense of belonging while they confront racism and estrangement on a daily basis Unified in their common interest in the well-being of children, the contributors bring an unrivaled breadth of experience and research to offer a transnational, multidimensional, and multilayered look at migrant childhoods in Latin America. Organized around three main themes—educational experiences; literature, art and culture, and media depictions; and the principle of the “best interest of the child”—this work offers both theoretical and practical approaches to the complexity of migrant childhood. The essays discuss family and school lives, children’s experience as wage laborers, and the legislation and policies that affect migrants This volume draws much-needed attention to the plight of migrant children and their families, illuminating the human and emotional toll that children experience as they crisscross the Americas. Exploring the connections between education, policy, cultural studies, and anthropology, the essays in this volume navigate a space of transnational children’s rights central to Latin American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Contributors Marissa Bejarano-Fernbaugh; Nancie Bouchard; Lina M. Caswell; Irasema Coronado; Valentina Glockner Alejandra J. Josiowicz; Patrícia Nabuco Martuscell; María Inés Pacecca; Martha Rodríguez-Cruz; Emily Ruehs-Navarro; Kathleen Tacelosky Élisabeth Vallet" 2023-06-07T05:38:18Z 2023-06-07T05:38:18Z 2023 book 9780816546206 9780816546190 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63305 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.pdf University of Arizona Press University of Arizona Press 40b84fbe-c64c-45d0-b80a-f260ee8b8f03 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780816546206 9780816546190 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) University of Arizona Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The Americas are witnessing an era of unprecedented human mobility. With their families or unaccompanied, children are part of this immense movement of people. Children Crossing Bordersexplores the different meanings of the lives of borderland children in the Americas. It addresses migrant children’s struggle to build a sense of belonging while they confront racism and estrangement on a daily basis Unified in their common interest in the well-being of children, the contributors bring an unrivaled breadth of experience and research to offer a transnational, multidimensional, and multilayered look at migrant childhoods in Latin America. Organized around three main themes—educational experiences; literature, art and culture, and media depictions; and the principle of the “best interest of the child”—this work offers both theoretical and practical approaches to the complexity of migrant childhood. The essays discuss family and school lives, children’s experience as wage laborers, and the legislation and policies that affect migrants This volume draws much-needed attention to the plight of migrant children and their families, illuminating the human and emotional toll that children experience as they crisscross the Americas. Exploring the connections between education, policy, cultural studies, and anthropology, the essays in this volume navigate a space of transnational children’s rights central to Latin American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Contributors Marissa Bejarano-Fernbaugh; Nancie Bouchard; Lina M. Caswell; Irasema Coronado; Valentina Glockner Alejandra J. Josiowicz; Patrícia Nabuco Martuscell; María Inés Pacecca; Martha Rodríguez-Cruz; Emily Ruehs-Navarro; Kathleen Tacelosky Élisabeth Vallet"
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