Children Making Media. Constmctions of Horne and Belanging

Christopoulou, Nadina; Leeuw, Sonja de

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“…This literature foregrounds the fluid and dynamic nature of their processes of identity formation (e.g. Bushin et al, 2007;Christopoulou and de Leeuw, 2005;Easthope, 2009;Harinen et al, 2005;Mannitz, 2005;Olwig, 2003;Sirriyeh, 2008;Sporton et al, 2006;Valentine et al, 2009). We argue that understandings of the ways in which children form belongings and attachments are enhanced by conducting research with children who migrate or who live mobile and transnational lives.…”

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“…This challenges notions of migrant children as having to choose between two cultures or 'identities'. Others have found that hybridity or hybridization (Christopoulou and de Leeuw, 2005), transculturalism (Hoerder et al, 2005) or transnationalism (Levitt and Waters, 2006;Mannitz, 2005) provide more useful frameworks within which to understand migrant and/or diasporic children and youth's belongings. These frameworks, while providing different lenses, are united by a concern to capture the fluid and dynamic nature of migrant children's and young people's meaningful connections and identifications.…”

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Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

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This article introduces a special issue on childhood and migration. It argues that understandings of the ways in which children form belongings and attachments are enhanced by conducting research with children who migrate or who live mobile and transnational lives. The articles in this collection highlight the mobile and translocal nature of children’s lives, from different perspectives and in different global and migration contexts. Taken together, they make a number of key contributions to an emerging literature on the lives of migrant, mobile and diasporic children and young people. They emphasize the situated and contextualized nature of migrant children’s negotiations of home and belonging. In particular, the collection explores children’s and young people’s constructions of home and belonging, often negotiated in contradictory or challenging circumstances and frequently destabilizing powerful assumptions about the nature of migration, mobility and childhood, such as ideals of childhood based on notions of residential fixity.

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Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

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“…For example, as Parreñas (2005) has documented, Phillipine children often construct flexible narratives about gender and ethnicity to preserve and protect culturally sanctioned family compositions and roles when transnational migration processes threaten (or do) undermine them; Chatty and Lewando Hundt (2005) have found that Palestinian refugee children who have endured forced migration take on multiple family roles in the new location rather than allow either the family body or the idea of family to disintegrate; and many scholars across disciplines have found that, ironically, children will often seek identification outside the family in the new location after migrating so as to preserve their symbolic membership in the family in the country of origin. Such locations include school and clubs (Christopoulou and De Leeuw, 2005), and gangs (van Gemert, Peterson and Lien, 2008).…”

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The War At Home: Affective Economics and Transnationally Adoptive Families in the United States

Stryker

2011

International Migration

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The question of how to best conduct post-placement interventions for transnationally adoptive families at risk of dissolution (legal annulment) is an emerging issue in the United States. The current popular trend for adoptive families to pursue biomedical post-placement interventions, despite a lack of proof that such interventions actually work to keep the adoptive family intact, suggests the need for a more phenomenological approach to understanding both adoptive parents’ and transnational adoptees’ post-placement experiences. This study examines the empirical experiences of adoptive families at risk of dissolution in the United States who attempt to define and navigate the path toward family stability after adopting. From the coding of this data set emerge some routes through and by which emotions circulate between adoptive parents and transnational adoptees through the family body and the family social. Particularly, it investigates one post-placement “affective economy” at work in which adoptive parents attempt, through the expression of particular forms of parental love, to align adoptees as subjects of the private, nuclear American family, while adoptees more often attempt to create space for more heterogeneous forms of family, ones that include birth parents and other kin-like relations in their countries of origin. Ultimately, it illuminates some vastly different and sometimes contradictory ways that adoptive parents and adoptees can interpret family through emotional lenses, ones that can prevent a smooth post-placement transition for adoption actors. An understanding of these differences and how they shape, and are shaped by, the post-placement affective economy within families at risk of dissolution may aid in locating indicators for adoption dissolution, and possibly, designing more effective post-placement interventions for families struggling in the aftermath of adoption. It may also help scholars begin to think about the construction and impact of affective economies in the realm of adoption more generally.

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More than methods: learning from research with children seeking asylum in Ireland

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Bushin

2011

Population Space and Place

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provide participants with exceptional resources for explaining their lives. ABSTRACTIn this paper we explore the ways in which the methodological and analytical complexities that are encountered when researching with children have stimulated particular approaches that are useful to consider in the context of research with both adults and children who are refugees or seeking asylum. We draw upon ideas related to performativity to argue that the methods and activities we employ in research encounters 'in-the-fi eld' play a key role in facilitating research participants' efforts to express their subjectivities and identities. Drawing on fi eldwork with children in an accommodation centre for asylum-seeking families in Ireland, we argue that using childcentred research methods can be understood as specifi c moments within which materials become available for research participants (children) to develop and enhance their social and cultural identities in many different ways. The use of multiple and participatory methods that children engaged with, adapted or ignored (as they chose), enabled and resulted in children representing themselves as individuals in families seeking asylum, rather than as 'asylum-seeker children'. This paper supports work that suggests that ways of approaching participatory research with children may be useful when researching other populations, but it goes beyond this point to assert that research encounters may

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Children Making Media. Constmctions of Horne and Belanging

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Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

Introduction: Childhood and migration — mobilities, homes and belongings

The War At Home: Affective Economics and Transnationally Adoptive Families in the United States

More than methods: learning from research with children seeking asylum in Ireland

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