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Children in Crisis : Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts.

This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their youn...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hashemi, Manata
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor & Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Children in Crisis; Children and the Street; Less Visible Childhoods; Childhoods in Context; References; 1. Street Children, AIDS Orphans, and Unprotected Minors: What You Read Is Not What You See; Defining Street Children; Counting Street Children; Thoughts on Cause and Effect; Coping and Resilience; Deviance and Normativity; Street Children, Their Families, andTheir Social Contexts; Problems in Collecting Data with Street Children; Representing Street Children throughan Ethnographic Lens; Notes
  • Background to this Comparative StudyTheories of Child Development and Prolonged Forced Migration; Research Methodology; Historical Context; Similarities and Differences: Palestinian, Afghan, and Sahrawi Case Studies; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4. No Balm in Gilead: Childhood, Suffering, and Survival in Haiti; Mother's Milk; Being in Anguish; Suffer the Children; "The Sugar in My Coffee"; Childhood of Another Order; Under the Gun; A Quiet, Domiciled Pain; What Value that Child?; Notes; References; 5. Children at Toxic Risk; Ethnographic Snapshots; Environment and Destitution
  • Argentina's Great TransformationThe Riachuelo, the Petrochemical Compound, and Villa Inflamable; Toxic Confusion; Young Views: Luisa's Suffering and Shell's Denial; "Something Strange is Going on Here"; The Dirty Makings of Durable Inequality; Notes; References; 6. (Im)permeable Boundaries: Why Integration into Affluent White-Majority Schools for Low-Income Minority Students is Elusive; Introduction; Social and Symbolic Boundaries: The Case of a Desegregated, Multiracial School; The School Setting
  • Multiple Dimensions of Boundaries for Low-Income Racial and Ethnic Minority Students in an Affluent SchoolIs "Integration" an Elusive Project?; Notes; References; Contributors; Index