The Uneven Globality of Children

Schäfer, Wolf

doi:10.1353/jsh.2005.0077

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“…In the last 20 years, the increasing neoliberal polarisation between the rich and the poor in most of the world's societies (Schäfer 2005), the global circulation of media images and narratives of Western affluence, the convergence of economic delocalisation and deindustrialisation, and the deep socio-cultural transformations characterising post-communist and post-colonial societies have all coincided with an intensification and transformation of migratory phenomena. Although minors and young adults have always migrated independently or with their families (Fass 2005), late-modern migratory processes have been characterised by a quantitatively superior and qualitatively different degree of involvement of minors and young adults in independent migration.…”

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Tampering with the Sex of ‘Angels’: Migrant Male Minors and Young Adults Selling Sex in the EU

Mai

2011

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This article draws on the findings of two recent studies on the migration experiences of migrant male minors and young adults in the European Union, with a specific focus on their involvement in sex work. I use original research material to deconstruct Northcentric understandings of minors selling sex as coinciding with 'child exploitation'. Contrary to current hegemonic 'one fits all' narratives of 'trafficking' and victimisation, the article shows how experiences of exploitation must be read within the cultural and social realities of the subjects directly involved. Migration and the other bodily practices which male migrant minors and young adults engage in, including selling sex, can be seen as embodied forms of resistance against the restrictions imposed on their mobilities across national, moral, age and sexuality boundaries. At the same time, migrating and selling sex are ways to comply with the commodified imperatives of globalised neoliberal moral economies, within which economic success is inscribed as an absolute priority.

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Tampering with the Sex of ‘Angels’: Migrant Male Minors and Young Adults Selling Sex in the EU

Mai

2011

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…In theory, any intervention within a particular youth justice system must now account for an increasingly globalized complexity within the social worlds of young people while moving towards upholding their human rights (Braithwaite, 2002;Mitchell, 2005Mitchell, , 2007Moore, 2007a;Mitchell, 2007a, 2007b;). Whether one sees the current wave of globalization as a new ideology obscuring trends that have always accompanied colonialist, capitalist expansionism, or whether one sees something novel, the dilemma for social scientists is to make sense of what they observe (Weber, 2002; see also Luhmann, 1997;McCarthy and Dimitriades, 2000;Schafer, 2005). It also appears important for stakeholders to attempt to bracket ideological debates about the merits or disadvantages of globalization since local cultures no longer exist in isolation from the rest of the world (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2002).…”

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Rights-based Restorative Justice: Evaluating Compliance with International Standards

Moore

Mitchell

2009

Youth Justice

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The authors' aim is to promote compliance with international legal standards by articulating intersections between young people's human rights and restorative justice principles — for legal theorists through transdisciplinary thinking and for practitioners by introducing the Rights Based Restorative Practice Evaluation ToolKit developed through this conceptual framework (Moore, 2008). This comprehensive approach was developed within the Canadian legal, social policy and youth justice contexts. Notwithstanding potential bias stemming from cultural or political milieu, the authors argue that rights-based restorative justice could contribute to the advancement of ethical practice in many UN-member states attempting to adopt these common frameworks.

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“…The drifting apart of affluent and poor urban environments thus marks the 'uneven globality' of children today. (Schafer 2005(Schafer , 1027 This drifting apart happens at global scales as well as within cities. Even within an inner city radius of 10 km, it is highly likely that uneven childhoods in uneven nature co-exist as inner cities become increasingly stratified for various reasons (Smith 2013).…”

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Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education

Duhn

Malone

Tesař

2017

Environmental Education Research

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This collection examines why urban environments are key sites for reimagining and reconfiguring human-nature encounters in times and spaces of planetary crisis. Cities constitute powerful and troubling spaces for human-nature intersections. They typically represent the effects of human dominance over nature: humans in control, taming and managing the wildness of 'nature' by domesticating it. Children existing in these mostly adult designed and orchestrated creations are often ignored as city dwellers, along with animals who increasingly migrate into urban areas. Yet cities are also sites of innovation and 'greening' , of critical democracy and renewal, with the most innovative cities including those where children co-create urban environments, and where animals and plants are valued as co-city dwellers. As this collection shows, troubling and reimagining these sites for diverse forms and ways of living, including of encounter with the other, and thus what can be learnt and taught through urban nature childhoods, is one possible pathway for working out different modes of being human with the earth. The idea for this collection on troubling and reimaging the deeply familiar concepts of urban, nature and childhood arose from a study visit to Berlin, Germany, where urban social, cultural, political and ecological initiatives are in constant tension with aggressive capital driven development. In Berlin, like in many of the world's cities, urban innovation (Ferguson 2014) co-exists with gentrification (Walsh 2013), urban food initiatives (Steele 2008), wildlife and cosmopolitics (Hinchliffe et al. 2005; Duhn 2017), brutal politics of expulsion (Sassen 2014), and with childhoods lived in poverty and childhoods lived in affluence (Chaplin, Hill, and John 2014). Berlin's politics of urbanity are at least partly about the 'renegotiation of the urban commons' (Ferguson 2014, 14; cf. the urban of Detroit, Johannesburg, Hangzhou, Lamu, Curitba and other case study sites of 'urban renewal' in Unesco 2016). Berlin's negotiations have led to discussions and debate, art works, architectural practices, discontent, disobedience and reclaiming as well as a re-imagining of KEYWORDS

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The Uneven Globality of Children

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Tampering with the Sex of ‘Angels’: Migrant Male Minors and Young Adults Selling Sex in the EU

Tampering with the Sex of ‘Angels’: Migrant Male Minors and Young Adults Selling Sex in the EU

Rights-based Restorative Justice: Evaluating Compliance with International Standards

Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education

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