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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 ContentsIntroduction; Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Xiarong Gu, Jessica Schwittek, and Elena Kim
SECTION ONE – INTRODUCTION
Childhood On A Modern Drive: Growing Up In East Asia; Xiaorong Gu
Chapter 1. Can Subaltern Children Speak? What China’s Children of Migrants say about Mobility, Inequality and Agency; Xiaorong Gu
Chapter 2. Emotional Dimensions of Transnational Education: Parent-Child Relationships of the Chinese “Parachute Generation” in the United States; Siqi Tu
Chapter 3. Fluid Childhoods: Chinese Migrants’ Descendants Growing up Transnationally; Laura Lamas-Abraira
Chapter 4. Transformations of Early Childhood in Japan: From Free Play to Extended Education; Frederick De Moll and Akihide Inaba
SECTION TWO – INTRODUCTION
Multiplicity And Fundamental Inequality Of Childhoods In South Asia; Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Asma Khalid
Chapter 5. Return Migration, Parenting, and The Subcontinent: Parents and Youths’ Perspectives of Life In India; Adrienne Lee Atterberry
Chapter 6. Pluralizing Indian childhood: Children’s Experiences and Adult-Child Relations in Urban and Rural Contexts; Ravneet Kaur
Chapter 7. Childhood Construction: Intergenerational Relations in the Afghan Refugee Community Living in Pakistan; Asma Khalid
SECTION THREE – INTRODUCTION
Living as a Child in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye: Navigating Between Solidarity, Collective Pressures, and Kinship Support in the Times of Disruption; Elena Kim and Doris Bühler-Niederberger
Chapter 8. “I Thought I’d Kill Myself When I Grew Up”: Queer Childhood Narratives in Kazakhstan; Mariya Levitanus
Chapter 9. Adolescents’ Migration Aspirations in Kyrgyzstan: A Migration Project as a “Collective Project” of the Family; Ekaterina Chicherina
Chapter 10. Sociomaterial Analysis of Azerbaijani Children’s Smartphone Use: Generational Ordering Through User-Technology Interactions; Aysel Sultan, Doris Bühler-Niederberger, and Nigar Nasrullayeva
Chapter 11. Türkiye - Negotiating More Adulthood in an “In-Between” Country; Aytüre Türkyilmaz
Chapter 12. Grandparenting the Firstborn in Central Asia: Exploring the ‘Nebere Aluu’ Practice; Elena Kim
SECTION FOUR – INTRODUCTION
Childhood and Youth In Southeast Asia: Confronting Diversity And Social Change; Jessica Schwittek and Elizer Jay de los Reyes
Chapter 13. Parenthood vs Childhood: Young People’s Generational Rebellion in Thailand; Giuseppe Bolotta
Chapter 14. Refusing the Mobility Imperative among the Left-Behind Generation in the Northern Philippines; Elizer Jay de los Reyes
Chapter 15. Social Relatedness and Forenaming in “Mixed” Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Chapter 16. “In This Way My Parents Could Really Develop”: Individualized Interdependence in Viet-German Families; Jessica Schwittek, Doris Bühler-Niederberger, and Kamila Labuda
