Conceptualizing Childhoods in Transnational Families: The ‘Mobile Childhoods’ Lens

Abstract

The migration journey of Rifka, who moved with her family from Russia to the US in 1919, reminds us that children have been migrating since the beginning of the twentieth century, and probably even earlier. Although children participate in the success of their family’s migration project, their voices are unheard in many studies of migratory phenomena. In recent years, the emerging approach in the social sciences that considers the agency of children in the analysis has started to influence migration scholars and to shift their focus towards the perspectives of young family members (Coe, Reynolds, Boehm, Hess, & Rae-Espinoza, 2011; De Block & Buckingham, 2007; Dreby, 2007; Orellana, 2009; Parreñas, 2005). Given the central role of children and youth in many migratory flows, notably in the phenomenon of parental migration, there is an increasing need to conceptualize their childhoods within transnational families and in two or more societies. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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