Children on the Move in Africa

Elodie Razy, Marie Rodet

A timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of children themselves to look at where, why and how they move - within and beyond the continent - andthe impact of African child migration globally.

Preface - Benjamin N. LawranceIntroduction: Child Migration in Africa: Key Issues and New Perspectives - Elodie RazyIntroduction: Child Migration in Africa: Key Issues and New Perspectives - PART I: CHILD MIGRANTS: BETWEEN VULNERABILITY AND AGENCY? - Marie Rodet"An Ardent Desire to be Useful": Senegalese Students, Religious Sisters and Migration for Schooling in France, 1824-1840 - Kelly Duke-BryantGirl Pawns, Brides and Slaves: Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1920s - Robin ChapdelainePART II: BEING A CHILD AND BECOMING A GENDERED ADULT: THE CHALLENGES OF MIGRATIONS IN CHILDHOOD"Bringing a Girl from the Village": Gender, Child Migration and Domestic Service in Post-colonial Zambia - Sacha Hepburn"I Will Never Become a Crocodile but I am Happy if I Eat Enough": A Psychological Analysis of Child Fosterage and Resilience in Contemporary Mali - Paola PorcelliWorking as a "Boy": Labour, Age and Masculinities in Togo, c. 1975-2005 - Marco GardiniPART III: MOBILITY, IMAGINATION AND MAKING NATIONSChildhood, Space and Memory: Migrations of the Métis in Central Highland Madagascar - Violaine Tisseau"We Were Mixed with all Types": Educational Migration in the Northern Territories of Colonial Ghana - Lacy S. FerrellIndia-South Africa Mobilities in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Minors, Immigration Encounters in Cape Town and Becoming South African - Uma Dhupelia-MesthrieEducation, Migration and Nationalism: Mapping the School Days of the First Genderation of Southern Sudanese Nationalist Leaders, c. 1948-1972 - with Harjyot Hayer - Hannah WhitakerChild Narration as Device for Negotiation for Space and Identity Formation in Recent Nigerian Migrant Fiction - Oluwole Coker