
"Being Left Behind"
An Ethnographic Study of Ecuadorian Primary School Children and Their Experience of Parental and Peer Migration
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International migration is a well studied phenomenonthat has attracted the interest of scholars fromacross various academic disciplines. However, todate little is known about children's participationin processes of global migration. The present studyattempts to fill this gap in the migrationliterature by providing detailed descriptiveaccounts on primary school aged children'sexperience with parental and peer migration. Thecentral research questions that are addressed inthis book focus on the ideas of migration andchildren's sociality that circulate in children'simmediate surrounding; children'...
International migration is a well studied phenomenonthat has attracted the interest of scholars fromacross various academic disciplines. However, todate little is known about children's participationin processes of global migration. The present studyattempts to fill this gap in the migrationliterature by providing detailed descriptiveaccounts on primary school aged children'sexperience with parental and peer migration. Thecentral research questions that are addressed inthis book focus on the ideas of migration andchildren's sociality that circulate in children'simmediate surrounding; children's actual experienceof parental and peer migration; and thetransformations that family structures andrelationships undergo upon migration. A broaddescriptive approach and anthropological researchmethods are employed to access children's worlds athome and at school and to shed light on theirexperience of migration. This book is directed ateducators, international migration agencies,educational departments, migration and childhoodresearchers, and anyone interested in children'sexperience of parental and peer migration.