Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult–child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult–child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction
Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski

PART I: CHANGING NORMS

Chapter 1. Invisible Routes, Invisible Lives: The Multiple Worlds of Runaway and Missing Women and Girls in Upper Sindh, Pakistan
Nafisa Shah

Chapter 2. Education, Tradition and Modernization: Bedouin Girls in Israel
Sarab Abu-Rabia Quedar

PART  II: LISTENING AND LEARNING

Chapter 3. More Than One Rung: Young women’s disadvantage in careers, work, skills and pay
Lucy Russell and Louisa Darian

Chapter 4. We’re Not Poor! They Are: Talking with children and parents about poverty and social exclusion in so-called ‘deprived areas’ of Milton Keynes
Anna Lærke

Chapter 5. Dancing With An Angel :What I have learnt from my “special needs” daughter, Elisa
Elsa Dawson

Chapter 6. Being Parented? Children and young people’s engagement with parenting activities
Julie Seymour and Sally McNamee

PART III: CROSS-CULTURAL  MOBILITY

Chapter 7. Children’s Moving Stories: How the children of British lifestyle migrants cope with super-diversity
Karen O’Reilly

Chapter 8. Children Negotiating Identity in Mallorca
Jacqueline Waldren

Chapter 9. Identity Without Birthright: Negotiating Children’s Citizenship and Identity in Cross-Cultural Bureaucracy
Ignacy-Marek Kaminski

Chapter 10. Doing Fieldwork with Children in Japan
Roger Goodman

Notes on the Contributors
Bibliography
Index