Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult–child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski
PART I: CHANGING NORMS
Chapter 1. Invisible Routes, Invisible Lives: The Multiple Worlds of Runaway and Missing Women and Girls in Upper Sindh, Pakistan
Nafisa Shah
Chapter 2. Education, Tradition and Modernization: Bedouin Girls in Israel
Sarab Abu-Rabia Quedar
PART II: LISTENING AND LEARNING
Chapter 3. More Than One Rung: Young women’s disadvantage in careers, work, skills and pay
Lucy Russell and Louisa Darian
Chapter 4. We’re Not Poor! They Are: Talking with children and parents about poverty and social exclusion in so-called ‘deprived areas’ of Milton Keynes
Anna Lærke
Chapter 5. Dancing With An Angel :What I have learnt from my “special needs” daughter, Elisa
Elsa Dawson
Chapter 6. Being Parented? Children and young people’s engagement with parenting activities
Julie Seymour and Sally Mc Namee
PART III: CROSS-CULTURAL MOBILITY
Chapter 7. Children’s Moving Stories: How the children of British lifestyle migrants cope with super-diversity
Karen O’Reilly
Chapter 8. Children Negotiating Identity in Mallorca
Jacqueline Waldren
Chapter 9. Identity Without Birthright: Negotiating Children’s Citizenship and Identity in Cross-Cultural Bureaucracy
Ignacy-Marek Kaminski
Chapter 10. Doing Fieldwork with Children in Japan
Roger Goodman
Notes on the Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Sobre el autor
Ignacy-Marek Kaminski is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Mejiro University, Tokyo; Associate Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at Goteborg University; and Visiting Senior Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford University. He has done fieldwork among the Ainu, Inuit, Roma and Ryukyuans; his research focuses on transitive identity, conflict resolution and leadership. His works are published in twelve languages.