GLOBAL YOUTH MIGRATION AND
GENDERED MODALITIES
Edited by
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
First published in Great Britain in 2019 by
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For my five daughters who have faced many odds and pursued their own paths as youth migrants in places we try to call home:
Charmaine, Czarina, Charelle, Czyna, and Charithe.
Contents
| Glenda Tibe Bonifacio |
| Rebecca J. Bates |
| Ginger Frost |
| Mairena Hirschberg |
| Medina Ina Niang |
| Raihan M. Sharif |
| Ina Batzke |
| Elif Gkearslan ifci and Dilek Kurnaz |
| Maria Veronica G. Caparas |
| Gabriel Asselin |
| Alessandro Bozzetti |
| Pamela Aronson and Ivy Forsythe-Brown |
| Ermira Danaj |
| Ibolya Czibere and Andrea Rcz |
| Logan Cochrane and Siera Vercillo |
| Bayram nal |
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
List of figures, tables, and photos
Figures
Tables
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Acknowledgements
With utmost joy and gratitude to the following who made this book a reality:
the contributors, for sharing their work and their cooperation since we started this project;
Policy Press, especially Shannon and other staff, for their patience and support throughout the publication process;
ReadWorld Foundation, especially my co-volunteersIvy, Kristy, Aileen, Gemma, Sonya, Rufa, Ate Levyfor the genuine friendship and memorable moments of making a difference to schools affected by disasters and poverty in the Philippines;
Roxanna Epe, my first PhD student, for her invaluable research assistance;
Ike and our five daughters for the love and support always, including Charly and Niro, the loyal pet friends; and the Universal Being in whom I have put my faith for all the moments of uncertainties.
To all of you, THANK YOU for the journey.
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Lethbridge, Canada
Notes on contributors
Gabriel Asselin is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist who obtained his PhD at Universit Laval, Qubec. He is an adjunct assistant professor with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta. His expertise centers on family mobility, childhood, community, qualitative health research, and discursive encounters in institutional settings. Some of his research focuses on agency, community experience, and community building and maintenance. More recent work relates to interdisciplinary collaborations with health sciences and public health researchers, with projects on advance care planning in family medicine and moral distress in nursing. He is currently employed as Policy and Research Coordinator for the Alberta Community Council on HIV where his work focuses on knowledge mobilization and knowledge translation around the topic of harm reduction.
Pamela Aronson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She has studied the transition to adulthood, with particular emphasis on young womens experiences of work and family, attitudes toward feminism, and gender differences in career development. Other projects deal with the college experience of disadvantaged students; the challenges of college students who graduated during the Great Recession; and changes in gender and feminist consciousness and internalized misogyny in, and following, the 2016 US presidential election. Her publications have appeared in Gender & Society, Critical Sociology, the International Journal of Psychology, Advances in Life Course Research, and the Journal of Youth Studies.
Rebecca J. Bates is Chair of the History Program and an associate professor of history at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. She holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in History from the University of Kentucky. Trained as a modern British historian, her publications and conference presentations have addressed issues of citizenship and philanthropy. Her current research project explores the relationships between masculinity, citizenship, and vocational education in England and the southern Appalachian region.
Ina Batzke is Lecturer and Research Assistant at Mnster University and visiting scholar at the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara, California (201618). She holds a Masters degree in transnational American studies and a Bachelors degree in communication science. As a member of the Graduate School Practices of Literature, she is currently finishing her PhD thesis about life narratives of undocumented youth in the United States. Her research foci include migrant and migration literatures, refugee and borderlands studies, law and literature, and life writing.
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is Associate Professor in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. She is a research affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. Her major research areas relate to gender and migration, religion, and disaster. She is the author of Pinay on the prairies: Filipino women and transnational identities (2013). Glenda edited Global currents in gender and feminisms (2018), Gender and rural migration: Realities, conflict and change (2014), and Feminism and migration: Cross-cultural engagements (2012). She also co-edited the following books: Canadian perspectives on immigration in small cities (2017), Migrant domestic workers and family life (2015), and Gender, religion and migration: Pathways of integration (2010).
