Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book makes important contributions to scholarship in the fields of anthropology and refuge/migration studies. Most ethnographies of forced migration tend to focus on adult refugees. Lems provides an intimate, close-up look into the experiences of teenage unaccompanied minors."—Nell Gabiam, Iowa State University
"Frontiers of Belonging beautifully and tragically renders the concept of 'exclusive inclusion' by exploring the stories of several unaccompanied refugee youth in Switzerland. . . . It calls our attention to the vast discrepancy between who refugees know themselves to be and what the Swiss bureaucracy, and the pedagogical agents (pedagogues) who come into everyday contact with refugees believes they are. . . . It is emotionally evocative and thought provoking."—Jennifer Riggan, Arcadia University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. On Doing "Being Normal"
2. The Model(led) Pupil
3. The Poster Child of Integration
4. The Unlucky Many
5. The Integration Pilot
6. Existential Balancing Acts
Bibliography
Index
