Child Migration and Biopolitics

This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework the authors examine the complex interplay of structures contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates childrenâs experiences views priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents in their own migration. Using a great variety of methodologies (archival research ethnographic observation interviews) and sources (drawings documents produced by governments and experts films and press) the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within Europe both West (Belgium France Germany) and East (Romania Russia Ukraine) South (Italy Portugal Turkey) and North (Sweden) enabling a deep understanding of the diversity of migrant childhoods in the European context. . Language: English