1st Edition

Children, Young People and Borders A Multidisciplinary Outlook

Edited By Machteld Venken, Virpi Kaisto, Chiara Brambilla Copyright 2022
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume increases knowledge about children and young people living in borderlands, passing through borders and (de)constructing borders, as well as highlights the potential of studying how children and young people imagine, act, cross, and inhabit symbolic and material borders. The study of borders and borderlands is growing extensively, but the experiences of children and young... Read more

Introduction - Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook 
Machteld Venken, Virpi Kaisto and Chiara Brambilla 
1. Borderland Child Heterotopias. A Case Study on the Belgian-German Borderlands 
Machteld Venken 
2. Be(com)ing "German". Borderland Ideologies and Hitler Youth in NS-occupied Slovenia (1941–1945) 
Lisbeth Matzer 
3. Bordering and Repatriation: Displaced Unaccompanied Children from the Polish–Ukrainian Borderland after World War II 
Olga Gnydiuk 
4. Passing by In/Visibly: The Lone Child in the Croatian Section of the Balkan Refugee Corridor 
Marijana Hameršak and Iva Pleše 
5. The Humanitarianization of Child Deportation Politics 
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen 
6. Mental Mapping as a Method for Studying Borders and Bordering in Young People’s Territorial Identifications 
Virpi Kaisto and Chloe Wells 
7. Creating Change in Higher Education Through Transfronterizx Student-led Grassroots Initiatives in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region 
Vannessa Falcón Orta and Gerald Monk 

Biography

Machteld Venken is Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) of the University of Luxembourg. Her research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science.

Virpi Kaisto is PhD Researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. She specialises in the study of borderlands, mental borders and processes of bordering, and border twin cities. Her doctoral dissertation studies the Finnish-Russian borderland with visual and ethnographic research methods.

Chiara Brambilla is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo (Italy). Her research focuses on anthropology, critical geopolitics and epistemology of borders; border studies and border theory; the Mediterranean border-migration nexus; border aesthetics; urban ethnography and borders in cities; and borders in Africa.