Childhood
Volume 24, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 21-35

‘The problem is that I don’t know’ – Agency and life projects of transnational migrant children and young people in England and Spain (Article)

Rübner Jørgensen C.*
  • a The University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Abstract

This article discusses the life projects of migrant children and young people in England and Spain and illustrates the importance of exploring family dynamics, contextual legal constraints, and ‘transnational uncertainties’ as part of young migrants’ ideas about the future. It reflects on the dilemma posed by acknowledging the agency of migrant children in relation to their future while at the same time considering the constraints they meet as minors and migrants within a broader family and societal context. © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.

Author Keywords

Migration life projects Transnationalism children’s agency Family

Index Keywords

England Spain migrant human family Child
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85012113507&doi=10.1177%2f0907568216646567&partnerID=40&md5=e4c1e7acb0e9f839c56c5abb9b98fffb
DOI: 10.1177/0907568216646567
ISSN: 09075682
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English