https://allegralaboratory.net/review-children-and-borders/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 16 May 2022 20:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/review-children-and-borders/#comment-74278 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:28:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=16560#comment-74278 Thank you for this review and your insightful reading of Children and Borders! Even though these issues have been a normalized aspect of everyday life in Cyprus and we have spent years studying them, we knew that there must have been many other situations around the world where borders impact young people’s everyday life and our call for chapters was really a first attempt to tap on this. Certainly the so called “migration crisis” has heightened the public’s awareness about the fact that children are literally caught on the border and this has helped to focus the discussion on how border policies and institutions impact the lives of those who are most vulnerable. From a disciplinary point of view, we hope that the conversation between Border studies and Childhood studies remains a productive debate that continues to confront the dilemma between seeing children as victims and children as agents of change. And we certainly believe that more ethnographic studies of these issues will highlight the nuances of this, albeit, false dilemma.

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