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“This book is the product of a fascinating conference held in Bari, Italy, in June 2019. Viewing the content of the collection of chapters included in the book, one can discover that, in that conference, presenters and organisers implicitly heed Dobson’s invitation (2009) to unpack children [and youth] in migration research. Doing this, contributors successfully overcame two kinds of “adultist constructions” (Holt & Holloway 2006) that are typical in the literature about international migrant children. First, the perspective that overlooks children in migration research simply because they are not “migrants”, they are “things”, “objects” or “suitcases” carried by their parents or other adults. In the collection of contributions gathered by Ana Vila-Freyer and Gökay Mehmet Ozerim, readers will discover exactly the opposite: children and youth are migrants. Instead of being “objects”, children and youth circulate, produce mental maps, have educational purposes while moving from one country to another. They build their own forms of understanding about the role and the duties of their legal guardians when they move unaccompanied and separated from their parents; they also talk about their own experiences. These children produce their narrative about what international mobility means for them; they even create their identities referring to different heritages, languages and feelings. In some cases, they are proud of their origins while accommodating the changes for acquiring new nationalities.”– Víctor Zúñiga, Professor of Sociology atTecnológico de Monterrey, MexicoCONTENT: FOREWORD by Víctor ZúñigaINTRODUCTION by Ana Vila-Freyer and Mehmet Gökay ÖzerimCHAPTER 1. Who is a Dreamer? Young Migrant’s Checkpoints, Mental Maps, and Communities of reference in North-America by Ana Vila FreyerCHAPTER 2. Dreams of Transnational Social Protection: Youth Returnees in Mexico by Victoria TseCHAPTER 3. Young migrants’ experiences with voluntary legal guardians in Palermo, Sicily by Francesca ViolaCHAPTER 4. Relational Proximity, Boundary-Making and (Im)Mobility: Migrant Children’s Narratives of The Streets in Ashua and Rabat, Morocco by Chiara MassaroniCHAPTER 5. Unaccompanied Minor Refugees’ Vulnerabilities in Sweden: Testimonials from a Voluntary Support Network by Amber Horning, Sara V. Jordenö and Tanja DejanovaCHAPTER 6. “I’m in a grey zone”: A Narrative Analysis of Return Migration and Ethnic Identity in Mexico by Irasema Mora-PabloCHAPTER 7. Insertion of the American youth into the Mexican labour market by Liliana Meza González and Pedro Paulo Orraca RomanoCHAPTER 8. The Nexus Between the Migratory and Academic Experiences of Youth: The Case of Transnational Students in Guanajuato, Mexico by Omar Serna GutiérrezCHAPTER 9. ‘I am proud as a Polish woman, but I would like to change my ‘nacionalidad’ – a case study of acculturation gap between Polish teenager living in Spain and her mother by Paulina Szydłowska, Marisol Navas, Weronika Kałwak & Halina Grzymała-MoszczyńskaCHAPTER 10. A case for Cosmopolitan, pragmatic sociology in the context of migrant youth integration by Sirkka Komulainen
