Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico.
With child migration on the rise, there is a critical need to understand how migrant children express their agency. To date, popular narratives cast migrant children as either victims or criminals, an unhelpful binary that does little to further efforts to develop effective interventions to help mig...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 235 - 253 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=133653949&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 133653949 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2019 vid: 45 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 133653949 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1404258 ppf: 235 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Re-conceptualising agency in migrant children from Central America and Mexico. aug: au: Thompson, Amy Torres, Rebecca Maria Swanson, Kate Blue, Sarah A. Hernández, Óscar Misael Hernández affil: Steve Hick's School of Social Work, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, USA Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA Department of Geography, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA COLEF-Matamoros, Matamoros, Mexico su: Unaccompanied immigrant children Children's rights Juvenile detention homes Motivation (Psychology) Child welfare Children Adults Youth sug: subj: Unaccompanied immigrant children Children's rights Juvenile detention homes Motivation (Psychology) Child welfare Children Adults Youth keyword: agency Central America Mexico migration Unaccompanied child ab: With child migration on the rise, there is a critical need to understand how migrant children express their agency. To date, popular narratives cast migrant children as either victims or criminals, an unhelpful binary that does little to further efforts to develop effective interventions to help migrant youth. Drawing from 32 in-depth interviews and participatory activities with Mexican and Central American children in Mexican youth immigration detention centres, this paper seeks to reconceptualise current understandings of migrant children's agency. In this paper, we explore how youth express their motivations, assert their will, develop pragmatic dependencies, employ strategic parroting and guard information to achieve their goals. We also examine how state and non-state actors both support and suppress young people's agency as they try to navigate their way to the U.S./Mexico border. In doing so, we argue for a more nuanced approach to child migrants' agency. A non-binary approach recognises the development of agency as a process, embracing children and young people's rights and vulnerabilities, while acknowledging their resiliencies, competencies, goals and strengths. We conclude by proposing a transdisciplinary research agenda to promote this non-binary approach. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2019 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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