Children Crossing Borders: Latin American Migrant Childhoods

The Americas are experiencing unprecedented human mobility, with children part of this movement. Children Crossing Borders explores the different meanings of the lives of borderland children, addressing their struggle to build a sense of belonging while confronting racism and estrangement. The volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to the complexity of migrant childhood, covering family and school lives, child labor, legislation, and policies. It highlights the plight of migrant children and their families, illuminating the human and emotional toll they experience as they crisscross the Americas.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 13 September 2022
Publisher: University of Arizona Press

The Americas are experiencing an unprecedented era of human mobility, with families and unaccompanied children being a significant part of this movement. "Children Crossing Borders" explores the diverse meanings of the lives of borderland children in the Americas, focusing on their struggle to establish a sense of belonging while confronting racism and estrangement on a daily basis. The contributors, with their extensive experience and research, provide a transnational, multidimensional, and multilayered perspective on migrant childhoods in Latin America. The book is organized around three main themes: educational experiences, literature, art, and culture, media depictions, and the principle of the "best interest of the child." It offers theoretical and practical approaches to the complexity of migrant childhood, covering family and school lives, children's experiences as wage laborers, and the legislation and policies that affect migrants. This volume sheds light on the plight of migrant children and their families, highlighting the human and emotional toll they endure as they navigate the Americas. By exploring the connections between education, policy, cultural studies, and anthropology, the essays navigate a space of transnational children's rights central to Latin American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The contributors include Marissa Bejarano-Fernbaugh, Nancie Bouchard, Lina M. Caswell, Irasema Coronado, Valentina Glockner, Alejandra J. Josiowicz, PatrÍcia Nabuco Martuscelli, MarÍa InÉs Pacecca, Martha RodrÍguez-Cruz, Emily Ruehs-Navarro, Kathleen Tacelosky, and Élisabeth Vallet.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780816546206