Message posted on 17/03/2019

New publication: Adolescent Girls' Migration in the Global South

Dear All,

We are happy and proud to announce the publication of our latest book:

Grabska, Katarzyna, Marina de Regt and Nicoletta Del Franco (2019), Adolesc= ent Girls' Migration in The Global South: Transitions into Adulthood. Palgr= ave Studies on Children and Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

This book provides a nuanced, complex, comparative analysis of adolescentgi= rls=92 migration and mobility in the Global South. The stories and the narr= atives of migrant girls collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sudan guide t= he readers in drawing the contours of their lives on the move, a complex, f= luid scenario of choices, constraints, setbacks, risks, aspirations and exp= eriences in which internal or international migration plays a pivotal role.= The main argument of the book is that migration of adolescent girls interse= cts with other important transitions in their lives, such as those related = to education, work, marriage and childbearing, and that this affects their = transition into adulthood in various ways. While migration is sometimes neg= ative, it can also offer girls new and better opportunities with positive i= mplications for their future lives.

The book explores also how concepts of gendered adolescence and adulthood f= or girls are being transformed in the context of migration.

A refreshingly nuanced analysis addressing the positive and negative outcom= es of the migration of adolescent girls and their diverse transitions to ad= ulthood in several cities in the Global South. The book brings to the fore = their own voices and seeks to move away from a tendency to reduce their com= plex experiences to exploitation and sexual exploitation.

=97 Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middle= sex University, UK

Using an innovative approach of comparative co-production, this insightful = book teases out the diverse and nuanced complexities of migrant girls=92 li= ved experiences. It explores South-to-South processes of migration, contrib= uting to contemporary debates on risk, resilience, mobility and agency in p= recarious contexts. Based on rich and in-depth case studies in Bangladesh, = Ethiopia and Sudan, the chapters reveal challenging gendered transitions su= rrounding the decisions, experiences andconsequences of migration. A powerf= ul read.

=97 Samantha Punch, Professor of Sociology , University of Stirling, UK

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030000929

Hardcover 79,99 =80 | =A369.99 | $99.99

eBook 67,82 =80 | =A355.99 | $79.99

Dr. Marina de Regt Assistant Professor Dept of Social and Cultural Anthropology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

New publication: K. Grabska, M. de Regt and N. Del Franco (2018), Adolescen= t Girls' Migration in The Global South - Transitions into Adulthood. New Yo= rk: Palgrave Macmillan

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