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CHILDREN AND YOUTHS’ MIGRATION IN A GLOBAL LANDSCAPE

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SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Series Editor: David A. Kinney (from 1999)

Series Editors: David A. Kinney and

Katherine Brown Rosier (2004–2010)

Series Editors: David A. Kinney and

Loretta E. Bass (from 2011)

Series Editor: Loretta E. Bass (from 2012)

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SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH - VOLUME 29

CHILDREN AND YOUTHS’ MIGRATION IN A GLOBAL LANDSCAPE

EDITED BY

ADRIENNE LEE ATTERBERRY

State University of New York at New Paltz, USA

DERRACE GARFIELD MCCALLUM

Aichi University, Japan

SIQI TU

New York University (NYU) Shanghai, China

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AMY LUTZ

Syracuse University, USA

SERIES EDITOR

LORETTA E. BASS

The University of Oklahoma, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

About the Editors

Adrienne Lee Atterberry is a US-based Sociologist. She currently works as a PRODiG Postdoctoral Fellow with the title of Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her research interests include international migration, parenting, and school choice. She is the author of Optimizing the Benefits from Schooling: School-switching Behavior Among Return Migrants in India, and Pathways to US Higher Education: Capital, Citizenship, and Indian Women MBA Students. Her current research investigates children’s experiences of education within transnational social contexts, and teachers’ work at elite schools. She is also working on a book project that examines parenting practices, school choice, and identity among transnationally mobile Indians and Indian Americans.

Derrace Garfield McCallum is an Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies in the Department of Global Liberal Arts at Aichi University in Nagoya, Japan. His main research interests include migration, transnationalism, family, race/ethnicity, multiculturalism, gender, care, and social policy. He is the author of Untold Stories: Jamaican Transnational Mothers in New York City; Typologies of Caring Roles in Filipino Transnational Families: An Analysis of Care Circulation from a Life Course Perspective; and Going Home to Learn: Educational Journeys of Children in Filipino Transnational Families in Japan. He is currently conducting research regarding the transition of Japan into a more multicultural society; primarily focusing on the experiences of relatively new migrant groups.

Siqi Tu is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society at NYU Shanghai and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Ethics, Law, and Politics of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. She received a PhD in Sociology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (2020). Her research interests focus on global citizenship, elite education, global middle class(es), and contemporary Chinese societies. She is working on a book about Chinese upper-middle-class families sending children as young as 14 to the United States for private high schools.

Amy Lutz is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her research interests include sociology of education, racial and ethnic inequality, and immigration. Her new coauthored book is titled Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream. Her current research includes a collaborative project on the school and early labor market experiences of children of immigrants in the United States, France, and Germany. She is also currently working on a collaborative project on mothers’ experiences of remote schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

About the Contributors

Zsuzsanna Árendás is an Anthropologist, Ethnographer and works as a Research Fellow at the Center of Social Science since 2017, and a Research Fellow at Democracy Institute, Central European University (CEU), Budapest since 2014. She worked in a number of international research projects. She has also been a Visiting Faculty at CEU, Cultural Heritage Studies Program and Undergraduate Studies Program. She taught courses on transnational migration and mobility at the Open Society Foundation summer university (Chiang Mai, Thailand), at Roma Access Program of CEU and at Open Learning Initiative (Olive-Up) at CEU. She has published academic papers in English and Hungarian. Her main research interests include social mobility and education, transnational mobility, and children/youth, as well as the educational integration of immigrant children.

Adrienne Lee Atterberry is a US-based Sociologist. She currently works as a PRODiG Postdoctoral Fellow with the title of Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her research interests include international migration, parenting, and school choice. She is the author of Optimizing the Benefits from Schooling: School-switching Behavior among Return Migrants in India and Pathways to US Higher Education: Capital, Citizenship, and Indian Women MBA Students. Her current research investigates children’s experiences of education within transnational social contexts, and teachers’ work at elite schools. She is also working on a book project that examines parenting practices, school choice, and identity among transnationally mobile Indians and Indian Americans.

Rosa Capobianco is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Education Science of the University of Roma Tre, where she teaches Social Statistics and Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Social Data. She is the author of numerous essays about issues of statistical methodology and data analysis.

Ernesto Castañeda is an Associate Professor of Sociology at American University in Washington, DC and the Founding Director of the Immigration Lab. He is the author of A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Belonging and Exclusion in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (Stanford University Press 2018); Building Walls: The Exclusion of Latin People in the U.S. (Lexington Books 2019), and with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of Social Movements 1768–2018 (Routledge 2020).

On Ni Chan is a Fellow of the Women Leaders Program to Promote Well-being in Asia, one of the six Leading Graduate School Programs of Nagoya University, Japan. Her recent publications include a chapter titled “Reconsidering Inclusive Migrant Education: The Case of Burmese Migrant Youth in Thailand” in Education and Migration in an Asian Context by F. Peddie & J. Liu (Eds.). She has a keen research interest in educational opportunities of underrepresented young migrants in transnational contexts.

Pradeep Kumar Choudhury teaches Economics at Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the recipient of China–India Visiting Scholar Fellowship (2021–2022), jointly hosted by the Asian Century Foundation and Ashoka University, Delhi. His research interests span a wide range of issues in education and development economics. Currently, he collaborates with the Delhi Science and Technology Cluster, IIT Delhi, and recently completed an international comparative study on assessing and improving the quality of higher education with Stanford University, USA. His co-edited volume titled Contextualising Educational Studies in India: Research, Policy and Practices was published by Routledge India in 2021.

Cynthia Cristobal holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from American University in Washington, DC. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Southern California.

Judit Durst is a Sociologist, Ethnographer, a Hon. Research Fellow at the University College London, UK, in the Department of Anthropology, and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Science. She has been a Faculty Member on Central European University Summer University’s Romany Studies Program for many years; and was on the Scientific Committee of the European Academic Network on Romany Studies. She holds a doctoral degree in Sociology. Her main research interests include ethnicity, poverty, reproductive decision-making, economic anthropology, and transnational and social mobility. She has published several academic papers and book chapters.

Angel A. Escamilla García is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University’s Migrations Initiative. His research focuses on children and youth living in high-risk environments, especially migrants. His current project uses ethnographic methods to explore how Central American youth navigate the constant threat of unpreventable violence as they traverse Mexico on their way to the United States. His other research interests include indigenous youth migrants and the history of sociology.

Mauro Giardiello is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Education Science of the University of Roma Tre. He teaches Sociology of Education and Family and Social Networks. He is the author of numerous essays and books on the study of local communities, youth culture and public space, social cohesion and generativity, and marginality.

Angrej Singh Gill is an Assistant Professor (Economics) at Panjab University Rural Centre, Kauni, District, Sri Muktsar Sahib (Punjab), India. He completed his MA and PhD in Economics from Punjabi University, Patiala. His major area of interest is Economics of Education. He has authored numerous research papers published in prominent research journals, and presented papers in various national and international conferences. He has also written articles that are published in newspapers. At present, he is carrying out a Azim Premji University-sponsored research project entitled “State, Market and Universalization of Elementary Education in Punjab.”

Daniel Jenks is the Deputy Director of the Immigration Lab and a graduate student in Sociology at American University in Washington, DC.

Noémi Katona finished her PhD in Sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2020. Her dissertation focused on prostitution and human trafficking. Since 2017, she works at the Centre for Social Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Excellence as a Research Fellow. She is a Member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet.” Her main research interests include gender, migration, prostitution, and care work.

Vera Messing is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center of Social Science since 2004 and a Research Fellow at Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest since 2008. She has experience in empirical research on ethnicity, minorities, migration, social exclusion as well as social science methodologies. Her work focuses on comparative understanding of different forms and intersections of social inequalities and race/ethnicity and their consequences. She was part of a number of European comparative research projects in the past 15 years and is the principal researcher of the Hungarian team of the European Social Survey. Currently, she works on “MIMY: Migrant youth integration and empowerment” (H2020) researching on young migrants in vulnerable conditions. Her publication list includes articles and book chapters in international academic journals.

Serah Shani is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy College in New York, USA. She conducts research in Africa and the African Diaspora. In the USA, her research broadly explores the intersection of socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, health and sociocultural life of immigrants in urban settings and how these aspects inform access to social services and socioeconomic mobility. Her current research looks at urban immigration, global and transnational movements, identities and the sociocultural economic adaptation of recent African immigrants to the United States. In Africa she has conducted research on the configuration and consolidation of elites in Kenya. She is also author of two books: African Immigrant Families in the United States: Transnational Lives, and Schooling and Indigenous Elites in Africa: The Case of Kenya’s Maasai. Most recently, she has been awarded a generous grant from The John Templeton Foundation for her project titled: The Cultural Evolution of the Conscience, Virtues, Character Development, and Human Progress.