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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review"This volume is an important contribution to the literature on children, their life worlds and child-parent interaction in multicultural settings. It is not entirely new that children have agency. The merit of the authors of this volume is that they are starting to address which strategies children may use both to strengthen and utilize this agency, and not the least point at limitations of agency." * Harald Beyer Broch, University of Oslo "Overall this is a strong volume with a coherent narrative and some very rich ethnography. I enjoyed reading it - all the contributors write well and have focused on the themes of the book. The links made between academic and practitioner work were very well done and the personal voices of the authors come through strongly. This is often an extremely hard task to pull off without becoming self-indulgent but in this case it worked very well." * Heather Montgomery, The Open University, UK
Table of Contents 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 McNamee
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
