The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies

Generations Between Local and Global Dynamics

Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Xiaorong Gu, Jessica Schwittek, Elena Kim, Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Xiaorong Gu, Jessica Schwittek, Elena Kim

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781803822846
• eBook ISBN: 9781803822839
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Marriage & Family Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

More than half of the world's children grow up in Asia, a continent currently undergoing rapid economic and social change. Yet the voices of young people in Asian countries have received far too little attention. Providing a much-needed contribution to the field of childhood studies, The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies sets a new agenda in a research landscape that has so far lacked an overarching conceptual framework for illuminating Asian childhoods.

Adopting a systematic and comprehensive approach, this pioneering handbook profiles Asian childhoods and youth embedded within their distinctive families and societies as well as in more universal contexts. Locating young people in a variety of social structures, chapters highlight and interrogate strong intergenerational obligations across Asian cultures, even as Asian societies undergo rapid economic change, political transformation, and mass migration.

Prioritising Asian youth's perspectives and contributions and revising established analytical frameworks of research, The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global conditions and private and public actors in Asian countries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies
• The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies: Generations Between Local and Global Dynamics
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Contributors
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One – Introduction Childhood on a Modern Drive: Growing up in East Asia
• 1. Can Subaltern Children Speak? What China’s Children of Migrants Say About Mobility, Inequality and Agency
• 2. Emotional Dimensions of Transnational Education: Parent–Child Relationships of the Chinese “Parachute Generation” in the ...
• 3. Fluid Childhoods: Chinese Migrants' Descendants Growing Up Transnationally
• 4. Transformations of Early Childhood in Japan: From Free Play to Extended Education
• Two – Introduction Multiplicity and Fundamental Inequality of Childhoods in South Asia
• 5. Return Migration, Parenting and the Subcontinent: Parents and Youths' Perspectives of Life in India
• 6. Pluralising Indian Childhood: Children's Experiences and Adult–Child Relations in Urban and Rural Contexts
• 7. Childhood Construction: Intergenerational Relations in the Afghan Refugee Community Living in Pakistan
• Three – Introduction Living as a Child in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye: Navigating Between Solida .
• 8. ‘I Thought I'd Kill Myself When I Grew Up’: Queer Childhood Narratives in Kazakhstan
• 9. Adolescents' Migration Aspirations in Kyrgyzstan: A Migration Project as a ‘Collective Project’ of the Family
• 10. Sociomaterial Analysis of Azerbaijani Children’s Smartphone Use: Generational Ordering Through User-Technology Interactions
• 11. Türkiye – Negotiating More Adulthood in an ‘In-between’ Country
• 12. Grandparenting the Firstborn in Central Asia: Exploring the “Nebere Aluu” Practice
• Four – Introduction Childhood and Youth in Southeast Asia: Confronting Diversity and Social Change
• 13. Parenthood Versus Childhood: Young People's Generational Rebellion in Thailand
• 14. Refusing the Mobility Imperative Among the Left-Behind Generation in the Northern Philippines
• 15. Social Relatedness and Forenaming in ‘Mixed’ Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples
• 16. “In This Way My Parents Could Really Develop.” Individualized Interdependence in Viet-German Families
• Index