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Recasting The Agency Of Unaccompanied Youth, Lauren Heidbrink
Recasting The Agency Of Unaccompanied Youth, Lauren Heidbrink
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This is Chapter 6 of Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances: Selected Proceedings of the Working Group on Childhood and Migration June 2008 Conference, published by Drexel University Department of Culture & Communication. Click for full-text.
Excerpt from the book abstract:
Most of the pieces provide in depth points of view from child migrant perspectives—data that is often difficult to obtain and portray sensitively. Child-centered data is exceptionally valuable in helping us to grasp the micro-forces by which childhood is changing through migration and how children experience or activate agency under trying conditions...Lauren Heidbrink [discusses] Spanish speakers in …
Flirting With Conversion: Negotiating Researcher Non-Belief With Missionaries, Hillary K. Crane
Flirting With Conversion: Negotiating Researcher Non-Belief With Missionaries, Hillary K. Crane
Faculty Publications
This article discusses Crane’s research in a Taiwanese Buddhist monastery. Crane came to the field as a former Catholic, which provided a particular lens through which to perceive the phenomena she researched. Beyond the difficulties of having one's research interests misinterpreted by the community one is researching and the ambiguities that result from remaining open to conversion when studying religious communities, Crane examines the further difficulty confronted when researching religious personnel who have an interest in representing their religious ideals both to and through the researcher. The article examines Crane’s time in the Buddhist monastery and explores her personal ambivalence …
Las Políticas De Salud Del Banco Mundial, Shiri Noy
Las Políticas De Salud Del Banco Mundial, Shiri Noy
Faculty Publications
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