Children in Crisis

This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their young at-risk inhabitants. Looking at the lived experiences of poverty drastic inequality displacement ecological degradation and war in countries including Haiti Argentina andÂPalestine the bookÂshows how children both respond to and are shaped by their circumstances. Going beyond conventional images of children subjected to starvation hunger and disease to build an integrated analysis of what it means to be a child in crisis in the 21st century the book makes a significant contribution to the nascent field of study concerned with development and childhood. With children now at the forefront of debates on human rights and poverty reduction there is no better time for scholars policymakers and the general public to understand the complex social economic and political dynamics that characterize their present predicaments and future life chances. Language: English