Everyday Ruptures

Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective

Cati Coe, Rachel R. Reynolds, Deborah A. Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, Heather Rae-Espinoza, Cati Coe, Rachel R. Reynolds, Deborah A. Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, Heather Rae-Espinoza

• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780826517487
  9780826517470
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826517494
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Emigration & Immigration
• Index: Social Sciences

When people--whether children, youth, or adults--migrate, that migration is often perceived as a rupture, with people separated by great distances and for extended periods of time. But for migrants and those affected by migration, the everyday persists, and migration itself may be critical to the continuation of social life. Everyday Ruptures illuminates the wide-ranging continuities and disruptions in the experiences of children around the world, those who participate in and those who are affected by migration.

The book is organized around four themes:
• how children's agency is affected by institutions, families, and beliefs
• how families and individuals create and maintain kin ties in conditions of rupture
• how emotion and affect are linked to global divisions and flows
• how the actions of states create ruptures and continuities

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Children, Youth, and the Everyday Ruptures of Migration
• I. Child Agency/Adult Power: Negotiating Movement and New Identities
• II. Social Reproduction: Family and Kinship across Borders and Generations
• III. The Circulation of Affect: Emotion, Children, and Global Flows
• IV. Status and the State: State Power, Migrant Responses, and Constructions of Childhood
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index