Living liminally : migrant children living in the Myanmar-Thailand border region

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dc.contributor.authorBall, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorMoselle, Sarah N.
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-15T16:36:07Z
dc.date.available2015-10-15T16:36:07Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-12
dc.descriptionpost-printen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on the perils and potential opportunities for children living as forced migrants in the transnational borderland between Myanmar and Thailand. During decades of armed conflict and economic ruin, millions of children and families from Myanmar have been displaced internally or forced to emigrate to Thailand and China. For migrant Myanmar children living in Thailand, lack of identity documentation, social protection and education are prevalent. Often stateless and disconnected from their families, communities, and cultures of origin and excluded from institutional affiliations, they live perched on the edge of society in a liminal state. Despite their vulnerability, however, the conditions of liminality may also instil unique orientations to the world as transmigrants, with skills that equip them to cope with a high degree of uncertainty and hardship and to adapt nimbly to future stresses and opportunities in a globalized world. This paper proposes an innovative program of research that challenges foundational theories of child development and views these children as actively engaged in meaning-making and as carriers of globalization.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationBall, J. & Moselle, S.N. (2015) Living liminally: migrant children living in the Myanmar-Thailand border region. Global Studies of Childhood (in press)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://gsc.sagepub.com/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6762
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.subjectForced migrants
dc.subjecttransnational migration
dc.subjectcirculating children
dc.subjectglobalization
dc.subjectstatelessness
dc.subjectchild development
dc.subjectidentity
dc.subjectliminality
dc.subjectMyanmar
dc.subjectThailand
dc.subjectKaren ethnic minority
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Care
dc.titleLiving liminally : migrant children living in the Myanmar-Thailand border regionen_US
dc.typePreprinten_US

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