Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children

The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues and debates shaping the child-centred approach to migrant children. It presents key concepts, approaches and methods as well as case studies, legal and policy issues. In this way, the Handbook provides foundational knowledge that can be utilised in further research and practice with migrant children in different contexts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgments


• About the Editors


• Contributors


• Preface


• 1. Introduction: The Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children


• Barbara Gornik, Zorana Medaric, and Mateja Sedmak


• Part I: Concepts and Models


• 2. Characteristics and Challenges of Child-Centered Approach with Migrant Children


• Zorana Medaric


• 3. The Social Conditions of (Migrant) Children's Agency in Global Society


• Claudio Baraldi


• 4. The Five-Dimensions Model of Migrant Children's Subjective Well-Being


• Sabine Andresen and Barbara Gornik


• 5. Migrant Children as Agents in the Adult-Centered Political Space


• Barbara Gornik


• 6. Against Adultism in Research with and about Migrant Children: Outlines of a Child-Centered Approach


• Urszula Markowska-Manista and Manfred Liebel


• 7. Transforming Participation of Children of Migrant Origin in Research Projects


• Shoba Arun and Jesicca Ozan


• 8. Fostering Child Centered Educational Settings for Students of Immigrant Origin


• Carola Suarez-Orozco


• 9. An Intergenerational Justice Approach to the Sustainable Support of Migrant Children


• Judi Mesman


• Part II: Methods and Approaches


• 10. Ethical Challenges in Researching Migrant Children


• Zorana Medaric


• 11. Migrant Children as Co-Constructors and Advisors in Research


• Deirdre Horgan, Shirley Martin, Jacqui O'Riordan, Reana Maier, and the IMMERSE Children and Young People's Advisory Group


• 12. Positional Multi-Method Approach to Elicit Migrant Children's Subjectivities


• Chiara Massaroni


• 13. Participatory Visual Methods in Child-Centered Migration Research


• Søren Sindberg Jensen and Gro Hellesdatter Jacobsen


• 14. Migrant Children's Photography as Transformative Practice in Early Childhood Education


• Annika Åkerblom


• 15. Storyboard Peers: A Child-Centered, Peer-Mediated, Visual and Narrative Approach to Research and Practice with Forced Migrant Youth


• Jessica Ball


• 16. Philosophy with Children (PwC) as a Pedagogical Approach and Research Method


• Søren Sindberg Jensen


• 17. Autobiographical Life Stories of Migrant Children through a Child-Centered Lens


• Mateja Sedmak


• 18. Child-Centered Approaches in Digital Research with Migrant Children


• Koen Leurs


• 19. A Child-Centered Approach to Longitudinal Data Collection


• Haridhan Goswami and Gary Pollack


• Part III: Voices and Perspectives


• 20. Migrant Children's Experiences and the State-Centered Regimes in Colombia


• Nohora Constanza Niño Vega


• 21. Legal Consciousness and Agency of Unaccompanied Migrant Children on the Move


• Bastien Roland and Annalisa Lendaro


• 22. Child Guides and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region


• Kate Swanson, Rebecca Maria Torres, and Sarah Blue


• 23. Young Children's Learning Environments in East African Refugee Camps


• Nerea Amorós Elorduy


• 24. Ghanaian Transnational Households and the Children "Left Behind"


• Michael Boampong and Jahan Foster Zabit


• 25. Girls' Irregular Migration, Return and Reintegration in Somaliland


• Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen


• 26. Intersectional Perspective on Migrant Children's Integration in Austrian Schools


• Stella Louise Wolter, Rosa Tatzber, and Birgit Sauer


• 27. A Case Study Exploring the Integration Experiences of Child Migrants in Malaysia


• Thavamalar Thuraisingam, Jason James Turner, and Kelly Tee Pei Leng


• 28. Romani Refugee Youth Perspectives on School and Work in Canada


• Sara Swerdlyik


• Part IV: Policy and Legal Issues


• 29. Migrant Children's Participation in Political and Democratic Life


• Barbara Janta and Michaela Bruckmayer


• 30. A Child-Centered Approach to Representing Children in Immigration Legal Systems


• Laila L. Hlass and Lindsay M. Harris


• 31. A Child-Centered Approach to Asylum Policy and Practice


• Nancy Kelly and John Willshire Carrera


• 32. Benefit of the Doubt and Presumption of Minority in Age Assessment


• John Dorber and Mark Klaassen


• 33. A Child-Centered Perspective and EU Integration Policies


• Veronika Bajt and Vlasta Jalusic


• 34. Promoting Migrant Children's Rights by Developing Child-Centered Information


• Helen Stalford and Tilly Clough

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Barbara Gornik is a Senior Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. Her main research interests are anthropology, human and children's rights, nationalism, and child migration. Until June 2022 she worked as Academic Co-coordinator of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action "Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe" (MiCREATE). In 2021, she became a member of the Scientific Research Council for Humanities, a permanent expert body of the Slovenian Research Agency. She is a member of the editorial board of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the LSE's Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Zorana Medaric is a sociologist and a research associate at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. Her research interests include migration, childhood studies, qualitative research and child-centred approaches, with a particular focus on the experiences of children in migration

contexts. From 2009 to 2021 she was a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Tourism Studies at the University of Primorska. As a researcher, she has been involved in various national and international projects, including Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE), Europe's first longitudinal comparative birth cohort study of children's and young people's wellbeing.

Mateja Sedmak is Principal Research Associate and the Head of the Institute for Social Sciences at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. Her research interests include ethnic and intercultural studies, migration and integration, sociology of everyday life and sociology of family. She is Vice President of the Slovenian Sociological Association and the head of the Section for Intercultural Studies. She has led many international projects, including the "Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe" (MiCREATE) RIA Horizon 2020 project. She is also National Coordinator of "Growing Up in Digital Europe" (GUIDE)

research infrastructure, Europe's first longitudinal cross-national birth cohort study.

Zusammenfassung

The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children aims to bring child-centered approaches as applied to researching child migration to the forefront of academic and policy debates on this topic. The chapters included in this volume cover the key debates in the field and provide important insights about recent developments in areas that inform use of the child-centered approach.

The concept of the child-centered approach is widely recognized in the social sciences and humanities, including sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social policy, and law. This approach, whether applied in research, policymaking, or practice, is based on children's agency and participation and focuses specifically on their experiences, perspectives, and voices. To this end, the child-centered approach privileges children when designing research questions, providing descriptions, making interpretations, and carrying out analyses.

By pairing the child-centered approach with concepts such as agency, voice, well-being, participation, and intergenerational justice that are used in contexts relevant to migrant children, this Handbook presents the major theoretical premises, epistemological approaches, and models used in different social settings and spheres, including research, education, and the political realm. It also describes the experiences of researchers in applying child-centered methods and approaches to their work and highlights the importance of ethical considerations and continuous reflexivity in relation to child-centered knowledge production. The Handbook additionally highlights the complexity and diversity of transnational childhoods from around the globe, as well as presenting the experiences of different migrant groups, including undocumented and irregular migrants, asylum seekers, economic migrants, and left-behind children. Lastly, it examines the fundamental legal principles and aspects of participation in relation to specific procedures, policy areas, and legal categories relevant to migrant children.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Barbara Medaric Gornik, Zorana Medaric, Mateja Sedmak
• Mitarbeit: Barbara Gornik (Herausgeber), Gornik Barbara (Herausgeber), Medaric Zorana (Herausgeber), Sedmak Mateja (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9780197654750
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765475-0
• Seiten: 690
• Serie: Oxford Handbooks
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social Discrimination, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Social discrimination and social justice