Children in Global Migrations

Fass, Paula S.

doi:10.1353/jsh.2005.0057

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“…It became clear from the interviews that it had usually been the parents who made the final decision, but that young people played an important role in influencing their parents' decisions. This is in line with previous research that emphasizes the role of children in the migration process (Fass 2005;Sibley and Lowe 1992). An example of a child's limited agency and influence is the experience of Yasmin (15 years old, moved in 2009 to a less deprived neighbourhood), who related the following:…”

Section: Satisfaction/dissatisfaction With the Neighbourhood: The Rolsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…However, studies increasingly show that children can play an active role in housing decision-making. Children are not necessarily helpless or passive in migratory processes; their roles within some families have increasingly become more equal to those of the parents (Fass 2005;Sibley and Lowe 1992). Empirical papers on children's participation in residential decision-making, however, are rare.…”

Section: Housing and Neighbourhood Choicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“I really wanted to stay in the same neighbourhood…”: neighbourhood choice and satisfaction in the context of forced relocation—young people’s perspectives

Visser

2019

J Hous and the Built Environ

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In recent decades, many Dutch municipalities have adopted policies of urban restructuring in deprived neighbourhoods. These policies lead to the forced relocation of the families living in the original social housing. As these families have priority in the housing market, the forced relocation is often seen as an opportunity to move to a better neighbourhood. However, we know little about how such a forced relocation and the new neighbourhood are experienced by the children of these families. Why are some young people satisfied with their new neighbourhood whereas others are not, and does their involvement in the decision-making process play a role in this? In this paper I show that for young people a sense of belonging is an important determinant of neighbourhood choice and satisfaction, more so than neighbourhood socioeconomic status. Moreover, limited perceived choice leads to lower neighbourhood satisfaction, but this is primarily related to actual or perceived obstacles in the housing market rather than the involvement of children in intrafamily decision-making.

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Section: Satisfaction/dissatisfaction With the Neighbourhood: The Rolsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Housing and Neighbourhood Choicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I really wanted to stay in the same neighbourhood…”: neighbourhood choice and satisfaction in the context of forced relocation—young people’s perspectives

Visser

2019

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…Although minors and young adults have always migrated independently or with their families (Fass 2005), late-modern migratory processes have been characterised by a quantitatively superior and qualitatively different degree of involvement of minors and young adults in independent migration.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tampering with the Sex of ‘Angels’: Migrant Male Minors and Young Adults Selling Sex in the EU

Mai

2011

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This article draws on the findings of two recent studies on the migration experiences of migrant male minors and young adults in the European Union, with a specific focus on their involvement in sex work. I use original research material to deconstruct Northcentric understandings of minors selling sex as coinciding with 'child exploitation'. Contrary to current hegemonic 'one fits all' narratives of 'trafficking' and victimisation, the article shows how experiences of exploitation must be read within the cultural and social realities of the subjects directly involved. Migration and the other bodily practices which male migrant minors and young adults engage in, including selling sex, can be seen as embodied forms of resistance against the restrictions imposed on their mobilities across national, moral, age and sexuality boundaries. At the same time, migrating and selling sex are ways to comply with the commodified imperatives of globalised neoliberal moral economies, within which economic success is inscribed as an absolute priority.

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“…In other words, when their agency is actually considered, it is pathologized. Decision‐makers make the naturalized assumption that spatial fixity is what is appropriate for children and is a requirement for social connectivity (Fass ). However, as scholars have attested, migration may be a rational resource within a context of global inequities, allowing for greater access to educational and employment opportunities and facilitating consumption practices that otherwise are restricted to those more “privileged” (Hashim and Thorson ; David ).…”

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A Better “Best Interests”: Immigration Policy in a Comparative Context

Statz

Heidbrink

2019

Law & Policy

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This conceptual article examines the role and limitations of the best interests standard in international and domestic policy, with a particular focus on how the standard is implicated in the treatment of unaccompanied minors in the United States. Motivated by emergent interdisciplinary scholarship on global youth and informed by a comparative consideration of best interests across other professions, we propose a new model of best interests. This model calls for a multidimensional recognition of youths' family-, community-and decision-making contexts; acknowledgment of youths' rights; and a commitment to speaking with, rather than for, young people. What results is a novel and dynamic understanding of best interests with relevance to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

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Children in Global Migrations

Cited by 34 publications

References 37 publications

“I really wanted to stay in the same neighbourhood…”: neighbourhood choice and satisfaction in the context of forced relocation—young people’s perspectives

“I really wanted to stay in the same neighbourhood…”: neighbourhood choice and satisfaction in the context of forced relocation—young people’s perspectives

Tampering with the Sex of ‘Angels’: Migrant Male Minors and Young Adults Selling Sex in the EU

A Better “Best Interests”: Immigration Policy in a Comparative Context

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