| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface by Benjamin N. Lawrance -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Child Migration in Africa: Key Issues & New Perspectives -- Part I. CHILD MIGRANTS IN AFRICA: BEYOND THE DILEMMA OF VULNERABILITY v. AGENCY -- 1 'An Ardent Desire to be Useful': Senegalese Students, Religious Sisters & Migration for Schooling in France, 1824-1842 -- 2 Girl Pawns, Brides & Slaves: Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1920s -- Part II. BEING A CHILD & BECOMING A GENDERED ADULT: THE CHALLENGES OF MIGRATIONS IN CHILDHOOD -- 3 'Bringing a Girl From the Village': Gender, Child Migration & Domestic Service in Post-colonial Zambia -- 4 'I Will Never Become a Crocodile but I am Happy if I Eat Enough': A Psychological Analysis of Child Fosterage & Resilience in Contemporary Mali -- 5 Working as a 'Boy': Labour, Age & Masculinities in Togo, c. 1975-2005 -- Part III. MOBILITY, IMAGINATION & MAKING NATIONS -- 6 Childhood, Space & Memory: Migrations of the Métis in Madagascar's Central Highlands (Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries) -- 7 'We Were Mixed with All Types': Educational Migration in the Northern Territories of Colonial Ghana -- 8 India-South Africa Mobilities in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Minors, Immigration Encounters in Cape Town & Becoming South African -- 9 Education, Migration & Nationalism: Mapping the School Days of the First Generation of Southern Sudanese Nationalist Leaders, c. 1948-1972 -- 10 Child Narration as a Device for Negotiating Space & Identity Formation in Recent Nigerian Migrant Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
A timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of children themselves to look at where, why and how they move - within and beyond the continent - and the impact of African child migration globally |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Migration, Internal -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Children -- Migration -- Africa
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Refugee children -- Africa
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Immigrant children -- Africa
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Immigrant children
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Migration, Internal -- Social aspects
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Refugee children
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Kind
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Migration
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Africa
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Razy, Elodie, editor
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Rodet, Marie, editor
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| ISBN |
9781782046233 |
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1782046232 |
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