ABOUT THIS BOOK

When people--whether children, youth, or adults--migrate, that migration is often perceived as a rupture, with people separated by great distances and for extended periods of time. But for migrants and those affected by migration, the everyday persists, and migration itself may be critical to the continuation of social life. Everyday Ruptures illuminates the wide-ranging continuities and disruptions in the experiences of children around the world, those who participate in and those who are affected by migration.

The book is organized around four themes:
• how children's agency is affected by institutions, families, and beliefs
• how families and individuals create and maintain kin ties in conditions of rupture
• how emotion and affect are linked to global divisions and flows
• how the actions of states create ruptures and continuities

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Cati Coe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Deborah A. Boehm is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Nevada-Reno.

Heather Rae-Espinoza is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development, California State University-Long Beach.

Julia Meredith Hess is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Prevention and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico.

Rachel R. Reynolds is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University.

REVIEWS

"In Everyday Ruptures, a group of international, interdisciplinary scholars illuminate the crucial migration experiences of children and youth. Their essays introduce us to a fascinating variety of migration worlds, ranging from Britain to Ghana, Ecuador, Mexico and more. The volume vividly contributes to our understanding of globalization's human impact."
--Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University, author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy— -

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Children, Youth, and the Everyday Ruptures of Migration

I. Child Agency/Adult Power: Negotiating Movement and New Identities

1. Children's Agency in Family Migration Decision Making in Britain

2. "For Tibet": Youth, Hip-Hop, and Transforming the Tibetan Global Imaginary

II. Social Reproduction: Family and Kinship across Borders and Generations

3. Transnational Fosterage: The Novel Care Arrangements between Guinean Caregivers and Ivorian and Liberian Children Fleeing War

4. Modes of Transnational Relatedness: Caribbean Migrants' Networks of Child Care and Ritual Kinship

III. The Circulation of Affect: Emotion, Children, and Global Flows

5. How Children Feel about Their Parents' Migration: A History of the Reciprocity of Care in Ghana

6. The Children of Émigrés in Ecuador: Narratives of Cultural Reproduction and Emotion in Transnational Social Fields

IV. Status and the State: State Power, Migrant Responses, and Constructions of Childhood

7. Schooling and the Everyday Ruptures Transnational Children Encounter in the United States and Mexico

8. Here/Not Here: Contingent Citizenship and Transnational Mexican Children

9. The Transnationally Affected: Spanish State Policies and the Life-Course Events of Families in North Africa

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index