Children and youth on the front line : ethnography, armed conflict and displacement

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Children and youth on the front line : ethnography, armed conflict and displacement

edited by Jo Boyden and Joanna de Berry

（Studies in forced migration, v. 14）

Berghahn Books, 2005

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"First paperback edition published in 2005" -- T.p. verso

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War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers of young people, undermines thousands of others psychologically and deprives many of the economic, educational, health and social opportunities which most of us consider essential for children's effective growth and well being. Based on detailed ethnographic description and on young people's own accounts, this volume provides insights into children's experiences as both survivors and perpetrators of violence. It focuses on girls who have been exposed to sexual exploitation and abuse, children who head households or are separated from their families, displaced children and young former combatants who are attempting to adjust to their changed circumstances following the cessation of conflict. In this sense, the volume bears witness to the grim effects of warfare and displacement on the young. Nevertheless, despite the abundant evidence of suffering, it maintains that children are not the passive victims of conflict but engage actively with the conditions of war, an outlook that challenges orthodox research perspectives that rely heavily on medicalized notions of 'victim' and 'trauma.'

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Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Introduction Jo Boyden and Joanna de Berry PART I: THE CONTECTS OF WAR Chapter 1. Separated Children: Care and Support in Context Gillian Mann Chapter 2. Cultural Disruption and the Care of Infants in Post-war Mozambique Victor Igreja PART II: VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS Chapter 3. The Sexual Vulnerability of Adolescent Girls during Civil War in Teso, Uganda Joanna de Berry Chapter 4. A Neglected Perspective: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of the Kosovo Conflict of 1999 Aisling Swaine with Thomas Feeny PART III: WHAT IS A CHILD? Chapter 5. The Use of Patriarchal Imagery in the Civil War in Mozambique and its Implications for the Reintegration of Child Soldiers Jessica Schafer Chapter 6. Girls with Guns: Narrating the Experience of War of FRELIMO's 'Female Detachment' Harry G. West Chapter 7. Children, Impunity and Justice: Some Dilemmas from Northern Uganda Andrew Mawson PART IV: CHILDREN'S NARRATIVES Chapter 8. Children in the Grey Spaces Between War and Peace: The Uncertain Truth of Memory Acts Krisjon Rae Olson Chapter 9. Beyond Struggle and Aid: Children's Identities in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Jordan Jason Hart PART V: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND METHODS Chapter 10. Researching Young People's Experiences of War: Participatory Methods and the Trauma Discourse in Angola Carola Eyber and Alastair Ager Chapter 11. Fluid Research Fields: Studying Excombatant Youth in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War Mats Utas Chapter 12. Anthropology Under Fire: Ethics, Researchers and Children in War Jo Boyden Postscript Chapter 13. 'Where Wings Take Dream': on Children in the Work of War and the War of Work Pamela Reynolds Notes on Contributors Index

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