Situated cultural development among youth separated by war

Daiute, Colette; Lučić, Luka

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2010.07.006

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“…This approach explains people's actions and development through interactions between the individuals’ experiences and the larger sociohistorical contexts. “Social interaction, according to this theory, is not only an influence but basis for human processes of knowing” (Daiute & Lucic, , p. 616). Thus, specific circumstances influence and organize the ongoing interactions and behavior in different ways.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lowell Immigrant Communities in the Climate of Deportations

Sladkova

Mangado

Quinteros

2011

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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In the climate of increased anti-immigrant sentiment, deportations of immigrants from the United States are on the upsurge. This article begins with a review of current immigration laws enabling detentions and deportations of undocumented immigrants, as well as permanent legal residents with a prior criminal conviction. It then explores how immigrants and refugees interact with this national climate in Lowell, Massachusetts, a traditional immigrant city in the Northeast of the United States. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions have clearly had an impact on Lowell. Our findings indicate that fear and mistrust of local authorities is driving behavior of immigrants, who are reluctant to seek medical services or to report violence to the police, whom they suspect of collaborating with ICE.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lowell Immigrant Communities in the Climate of Deportations

Sladkova

Mangado

Quinteros

2011

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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“…While it may sound counter to common sense to theorize that an impoverished and war-afflicted developmental context can enable the emergence of adaptive cognitive skills, this case study and other emerging research are increasingly pointing in this direction. By examining the context-dependent aspects of human development, researchers are starting to show that even during extremely dangerous and challenging situations, development activates uniquely human capacities of sense-making, meaning-making, thought, and creativity, which children and adolescents learn to use in context-specific ways [Daiute, 2010;Daiute & Lucić, 2010;Lucić, 2013Lucić, , 2016b; for an overview, also see Daiute, Beykont, Higson-Smith, & Nucci, 2006].…”

Section: Conclusion: the Effects Of War Persist Long After Armed Fighmentioning

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Developmental Affordances of War-Torn Landscapes: Growing up in Sarajevo under Siege

Lučić¹

2016

Human Development

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Young people growing up in war zones experience significant changes of their physical and social environments caused by urban destruction. Employing the methodology of narrative inquiry, this work theoretically explores environmental and spatial affordances enabling sociocognitive development among young people growing up during the 4-year military siege of Sarajevo. The theoretical analysis focuses on two environmental contexts - war school and the Sarajevo war tunnel - and examines how affordances of physical environments, symbolically enacted in language, scaffold developmental activities during this highly specific wartime period. The developmental meaning of environmental affordances comes to life in contemporary narratives written by 16 adults who as young people attended war schools or worked in the Sarajevo war tunnel. Theoretical foundations of sociocultural and ecological psychology are employed to illuminate how environmental affordances contributed to the development of psychological functions well suited to everyday life in circumstances of war and urban destruction.

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“…An analysis of "icons"-plot-central symbolic objects-in narratives by young Bosnians in the U.S. and peers in Sarajevo indicated, for example, a preference for intimate settings and characters by the U.S. group compared to the public settings of narratives by the Bosnian domicile group. While the U.S. group wrote narratives about con fl icts in the family and among close friends, their peers in Bosnia and Herzegovina wrote narratives about con fl icts in public squares and on public transportation (Daiute & Lucic, 2010 ) . Given the psychosocial function of narrating, such a difference in imagery indicates a signi fi cant life focus, perhaps as a safe space for symbolic exploration.…”

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“…Narratives and other discursive activities by both groups have offered important insights about experiences of displacement. Having de fi ned such an activity-meaning system, a researcher can determine how to sample groups with different displacement histories, as we did when working with young Bosnians who had been displaced by the war and those who remained in Bosnia (Daiute & Lucic, 2010 ) . Designing a political violence system requires historical and cultural knowledge of a myriad of relevant actors and events, and such a design offers a realistic and necessary backdrop for studying human development in contemporary globalization, where movements of information, people, and resources are the norm rather than aberrations.…”

Section: Meaning In Activity Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To illustrate the bene fi t of sampling across displaced and nondisplaced groups in a political violence system, I focus on differences in analyses of the 46 narratives of con fl ict among adults produced by these two groups (See Daiute, 2010 ;Daiute & Lucic, 2010 , for more detailed reports).…”

Section: Phase In a Political-violence System Time-years Locations Kementioning

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