Children and youth on the front line : ethnography, armed conflict and displacement

Children and youth on the front line : ethnography, armed conflict and displacement / edited by Jo Boyden and Joanna de Berry.

"Based on detailed ethnographic description and on young people's own accounts, this volume provides insights into children's experiences as both survivors and perpetrators of violence. It focuses on girls who have been exposed to sexual exploitation and abuse, children who head house...

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Other Authors: Boyden, Jo, Berry, Joanna de
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2004
Series:Studies in forced migration ; v. 14.
Subjects:
Children and war.
Children > Relocation.
Children and violence.
Child soldiers.
Child psychology.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Table of Contents:
  • Separated children: care and support in context / Gilian Mann
  • Cultural disruption and the care of infants in post-war Mozambique / Vitor Igreja
  • The sexual vulnerability of adolescent girls during civil war in Teso, Uganda / Joanna de Berry
  • A neglected perspective: adolescent girls' experiences of the Kosovo Conflict of 1999 / Aisling Swaine with Thomas Feeny
  • The use of patriarchal imagery in the civil war in Mozambique and its implications for the reintegration of child soldiers / Jessica Schafer
  • Girls with guns: narrating the experience of war of FRELIMO's 'Female Detachment' / Harry G. West
  • Children, impunity and justice: some dilemmas from Northern Uganda / Andrew Mawson
  • Children in the grey spaces between war and peace: the uncertain truth of memory acts / Krisjon Rae Olson
  • Beyond struggle and aid: children's identities in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan / Jason Hart
  • Researching young people's experiences of war: participatory methods and the trauma discourse in Angola / Carola Eyber and Alastair Ager
  • Fluid research fields: studying excombantant youth in the aftermath of the Liberian civil war / Mats Utas
  • Anthropology under fire: ethics, researchers and children in war / Jo Boyden
  • 'Where wings take dream': on children in the work of war and the war of work / Pamela Reynolds.

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