The Critical Childhoods & Youth Studies Collective aims to bring together academics and practitioners working with and on children and youth in South Asia.
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Call for our CCYSC blog : Submit 1200-1500 word posts that discuss children and youth in conflict zones in South Asia- Re(writing) children and youth experiences in South Asia- with a focus on the Northeast. Deadline: June 20, 2025. Email us at [email protected]
Check out our CCYSC member @sreejithm1986 post on Malayalam stories and boyhoods!
Sreejith delves into three of M. R. Renukumar’s illustrated stories for children, exploring how these rich portrayals of the turbulent lifeworlds of boys convey the complexities of gender, caste, and social marginalization for young readers.
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Listen to our member Divya Kannan's podcast: Contested Childhoods explores the activities of three European Protestant missionaries in running schools for poor children, compulsory education debates, textbooks and more!
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@TCcysc podcast # 37 is out! @sonisharma88 engages with @catriona_ellis regarding her book Imagining Childhood, Improving Children (CUP 2024). Hear about the emergence of child welfare schemes, role of national elites, and childhood in south India.
theccysc.com/podcast/episode…
Join us online on 20 December to discuss the latest children's history books on food, sports, and clothing. Led by the wonderful Debarati Bagchi and
@Anwesha_sg
Link: maxweberstiftung.zoom.us/j/6…
Excited to share our latest photo essay on Tibetan- Canadian children and their schooling by linguistic anthropologist Shannon Ward.
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We are back with Podcast # 36 ! A conversation with the wonderful student members and leaders of @CommunityLibPro who are campaigning for free libraries for all. Support their Right to Read campaign!
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Last 4 blogs of our “Childhood and Migration blog” series are out! These were possible thanks to our collaboration @CLPN_ac. Coeditors of the series Adrienne Lee Atterberry & Karina Ruiz share a recap of the themes in their conclusion: theccysc.com/post/conclusion…
Our 11th blog is a poem by Laura Rennie (Uni of Portsmouth) on the migrant child labour brought to Britain from its Caribbean colonies. Do read “Windrush Child” here: theccysc.com/post/windrush-c…
Sandra Castro, Adelphi Uni, discusses how school matters for Central American migrant children in Suburban Long Island Schools, US. theccysc.com/post/schools-ma…
Angel A Escamilla Garcia, Yale University, writes, in our 9th blog of the series, about the journey of “Central American Minor Migrants and their Experience of Violence While in Transit Through Mexico” theccysc.com/post/central-am…
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The @TCcysc anf @CLPN_ac is delighted to co-launch the blog series on Childhood and Migration, edited by Adrienne Lee Atterberry and Karina Ruiz. Take a look!
We're delighted to launch our blog series:
"Childhood & Migration."
Edited by our members Adrienne Lee Atterberry & Karina Ruiz, it's a collaboration with CCYSC (a network convened by our members @AnandiniDar & @divkan1).
Today we publish the intro:
qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/b…
Looking for some Sunday reading?
Check out the 8 part blog series on children & migration focusing on regions of Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Netherlands and more. This series is co-edited by our members Adrienne Atterberry & Karina Ruiz theccysc.com/blog
Jessica Schwittek (Uni of Duisburg-Essen) & Karin Kampfe (Uni of Education Schwabish Gmund) draw on children’s drawings to discuss the meaning of “belonging” for child migrants. theccysc.com/post/childhood-…
Rianka Roy, Wake Forest Uni, discuss the challenges of citizenship faced by Indian children who migrate to USA with parents on work visas. theccysc.com/post/aging-out-…
Senper E. Fisseha, Addis Ababa Uni, Ethiopia, writes about the challenges faced by child refugees in Ethiopia theccysc.com/post/navigating…
Roshini Nuggehalli, Siddharth Ki, Prakash Bhaware, Youth for Unity & Voluntary Action, India, share about their work where they facilitate building of leadership skills amongst displaced children in Mumbai. theccysc.com/post/migrant-ch…
Philip Veeraan reflects on his experience as a health psychologist while working with Eritrean child refugees in the Netherlands. theccysc.com/post/keeping-ch…
Susan Kay Flowers, Liverpool John Moores Uni, writes about Nepali children who get separated from their parents and their struggles to obtain citizenship theccysc.com/post/childhood-…
Sarah Walker, Uni of Bologna, Italy, writes about “youth migration and the border of childhood”: examining the plight of unaccompanied African children seeking asylum in Italy theccysc.com/post/childhood-…