Child Migration and Biopolitics
This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates childrens experiences, views, priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents in their own migration.
Using a great variety of methodologies (archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews) and sources (drawings, documents produced by governments and experts, films and press), the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within Europe, both West (Belgium, France, Germany) and East (Romania, Russia, Ukraine), South (Italy, Portugal, Turkey) and North (Sweden), enabling a deep understanding of the diversity of migrant childhoods in the European context.
Beatrice Scutaru is an Assistant Professor in European History at the School of History and Geography within Dublin City University. Her research lies at the intersection between Migration and Childhood studies, with a special focus on the Cold War and Intra-European mobility.
Simone Paoli is an Assistant Professor of History of International Relations at the Department of Political Science of the University of Pisa. His research interests focus on the history of European integration and Euro-Mediterranean relations, with an emphasis on education and migration issues.
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Mehmet Bozok is a sociologist who specializes in masculinities and, recently, forced migration. He obtained his bachelors degree from the Philosophy Department at Hacettepe University in Ankara (Turkey). He began studying the social construction of masculinities during his masters studies at the Anthropology Department of Hacettepe University in the early 2000s. In his doctorate studies at the Sociology Department of Middle East Technical University in Ankara, he focused on the local construction of masculinities in Trabzon. Afterwards, he began studying forced migration, conducting fieldwork amongst Syrian and Afghan migrants in Turkey. In 2016, Bozok took part as the main researcher in AEVs (Mother Child Education Foundation) Fatherhood in Turkey Research, which conducted a nationwide (qualitative and quantitative) survey with 3,265 fathers around Turkey. He now works as an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department of Maltepe University in Istanbul.
Nihan Bozok is a sociologist who studied postmodern medicine and focused on organ transplantation in her doctorate study, which she completed in 2015 at the Sociology Department of Middle East Technical University in Ankara (Turkey). She has studied the sociology of health and aging, gender and literature, and disadvantaged children in Turkey. From 2009 to 2012, she conducted longitudinal field research on orphanages in Turkey. Recently, she began studying forced migration, conducting fieldwork amongst Syrian and young Afghan migrants in Turkey. In 2016, Bozok conducted ethnographic field research in an Aegean village as a part of The Social Anthropological Research in Forrest Villages in Turkey Project, funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). She now works as an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department of Beykent University in Istanbul.
Chiara Candaele earned her masters degree in History from the University of Antwerp in 2016. She is a PhD Researcher at the Centre for Political History at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Her doctoral dissertation, entitled Uprooted Childhood. Practices of Transnational Child Displacements (Belgium, 19451980), studies the development of intercountry adoption and foster care through a political and postcolonial lens. Her work tries to unravel the links between power and care, and her research interests include (the history of) humanitarianism, family planning and (Catholic) biopolitics.
Yves Denchre is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Angers (France). He leads the TEMOS research unit (CNRS) and the EnJeu[x] Enfance et Jeunesse research programme. His work focuses on children in transnational relations, particularly in the contexts of the end of war and the end of the colonial empire. He recently edited the book Enjeux postcoloniaux de lenfance et de la jeunesse. Espace francophone (19451980) (Peter Lang, 2019).
Olga Gnydiuk holds a PhD in History from the European University Institute (Florence) and an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include history of children and childhood, refugee and migration studies, welfare provision in the twentieth century and Ukrainian, Soviet and transnational history. Currently, she is a research assistant for the project History of 20th Century City in the Digital Age: The Educational Platform for Cultural Heritage, funded by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.