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Childhood and Migration
Jacqueline . Ed(S): Knorr
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Description for Childhood and Migration
Editor(s): Knorr, Jacqueline. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their host societies. What role does the cultural background of the society of origin on the one hand and the strategies of integration found in the host society on the other play in the creation of identity and of a concept of home, origin and belonging? How do children express processes of cultural orientation and integration (music, media, fashion, style) and ... Read more
This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their host societies. What role does the cultural background of the society of origin on the one hand and the strategies of integration found in the host society on the other play in the creation of identity and of a concept of home, origin and belonging? How do children express processes of cultural orientation and integration (music, media, fashion, style) and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Transaction Publishers United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783899423846
SKU
V9783899423846
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About Jacqueline . Ed(S): Knorr
Jacqueline Knörr (Dr. phil.), anthropologist, is associate professor and head of the Research Group »Integration and Conflict as Dimensions of Cultural Tradition, Social Dynamics and Historical Experience in the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)« at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. Her main areas of research are West Africa and Indonesia.
Reviews for Childhood and Migration
Besprochen in: Int. Migration & Integration, 23.10.2007, Anna Kirova Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 131 (2006), Ulrike Bieker