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Forced Migration, and Material and Virtual Mobility among Rwandan Children and Young People

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Child and Youth Migration

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Research on global migration continues to be mainly about adult migration (Castles and Miller 2003), and the migration of children and young people is generally subsumed within that of adults or conceptualized as a separate, almost exceptional, phenomenon (Donà 2006). Yet, children and young people are increasingly part of global migration circuits (Hashim and Thorsen 2011; Salazar Parreñas 2005), and many of them simultaneously grow up and move, having to negotiate new ways of belonging (Ni Laoire et al. 2011) and develop new coping strategies and resilience (Ensor and Gozdziak 2010).

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    Giorgia Donà

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Donà, G. (2014). Forced Migration, and Material and Virtual Mobility among Rwandan Children and Young People. In: Veale, A., Donà, G. (eds) Child and Youth Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280671_6

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