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Years of Conflict : Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement / ed. by Jason Hart.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Forced Migration ; 25Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845455286
  • 9780857450548
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.60835 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ799.2.V56 Y43 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I ADOLESCENCE IN CONTEXT -- 1 Reconstructing Adolescence after Displacement: Experience from Eastern Africa -- 2 Doing Nothing and Being Good: Social Relationships and Networks of Support among Adolescent Congolese Refugees in Dar es Salaam -- 3 Growing Up in Exile: Psychosocial Challenges Facing Refugee Youth in the United States -- PART II ADOLESCENTS ENGAGING IN POLITICAL VIOLENCE -- 4 Political Transition and Youth Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa: In Search of Understanding -- 5 Abject Heroes: Marginalised Youth, Modernity and Violent Pathways of the Liberian Civil War -- 6 UNHCR and the Military Recruitment of Adolescents -- PART III GENDERED ADOLESCENCE IN EXILE -- 7 The Long Road Home: Adolescent Afghan Refugees in Iran Contemplate ‘Return’ -- 8 Dislocated Masculinity: Adolescence and the Palestinian Nation-in-exile -- PART IV RESPONDING TO ADOLESCENTS -- 9 The Challenges of Programming with Youth in Afghanistan -- 10 Adolescence and Armed Conflict in Colombia: ‘Resilience’ as a Construction Emerging within Psychosocial Work -- PART V RESEARCHING WITH ADOLESCENTS -- 11 Participatory Research with Waraffected Adolescents and Youth: Lessons Learnt from Fieldwork with Youth Gangs in Ayacucho, Peru -- 12 The Place to Be? Making Media with Young Refugees -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of “children” commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people under eighteen years of age. As a consequence, the specific situation of adolescents negotiating the processes of transition towards social adulthood amidst conditions of violence and displacement is commonly overlooked. Years of Conflict provides a much-needed corrective. Drawing upon perspectives from anthropology, psychology, and media studies as well as the insights of those involved in programmatic interventions, it describes and analyses the experiences of older children facing the challenges of daily life in settings of conflict, post-conflict and refuge. Several authors also reflect upon methodological issues in pursuing research with young people in such settings. The accounts span the globe, taking in Liberia, Afghanistan, South Africa, Peru, Jordan, UK/Western Europe, Eastern Africa, Iran, USA, and Colombia. This book will be invaluable to those seeking a fuller understanding of conflict and displacement and its effects upon adolescents. It will also be welcomed by practitioners concerned to develop more effective ways of providing support to this group.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I ADOLESCENCE IN CONTEXT -- 1 Reconstructing Adolescence after Displacement: Experience from Eastern Africa -- 2 Doing Nothing and Being Good: Social Relationships and Networks of Support among Adolescent Congolese Refugees in Dar es Salaam -- 3 Growing Up in Exile: Psychosocial Challenges Facing Refugee Youth in the United States -- PART II ADOLESCENTS ENGAGING IN POLITICAL VIOLENCE -- 4 Political Transition and Youth Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa: In Search of Understanding -- 5 Abject Heroes: Marginalised Youth, Modernity and Violent Pathways of the Liberian Civil War -- 6 UNHCR and the Military Recruitment of Adolescents -- PART III GENDERED ADOLESCENCE IN EXILE -- 7 The Long Road Home: Adolescent Afghan Refugees in Iran Contemplate ‘Return’ -- 8 Dislocated Masculinity: Adolescence and the Palestinian Nation-in-exile -- PART IV RESPONDING TO ADOLESCENTS -- 9 The Challenges of Programming with Youth in Afghanistan -- 10 Adolescence and Armed Conflict in Colombia: ‘Resilience’ as a Construction Emerging within Psychosocial Work -- PART V RESEARCHING WITH ADOLESCENTS -- 11 Participatory Research with Waraffected Adolescents and Youth: Lessons Learnt from Fieldwork with Youth Gangs in Ayacucho, Peru -- 12 The Place to Be? Making Media with Young Refugees -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of “children” commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people under eighteen years of age. As a consequence, the specific situation of adolescents negotiating the processes of transition towards social adulthood amidst conditions of violence and displacement is commonly overlooked. Years of Conflict provides a much-needed corrective. Drawing upon perspectives from anthropology, psychology, and media studies as well as the insights of those involved in programmatic interventions, it describes and analyses the experiences of older children facing the challenges of daily life in settings of conflict, post-conflict and refuge. Several authors also reflect upon methodological issues in pursuing research with young people in such settings. The accounts span the globe, taking in Liberia, Afghanistan, South Africa, Peru, Jordan, UK/Western Europe, Eastern Africa, Iran, USA, and Colombia. This book will be invaluable to those seeking a fuller understanding of conflict and displacement and its effects upon adolescents. It will also be welcomed by practitioners concerned to develop more effective ways of providing support to this group.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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