While African children are heavily involved in migration, they remain obscure in grey and scholarly literatures dominated by the male labour migratory model. Furthermore, work on young migrants often conflates the social categories of ‘child’ and ‘youth’ and children themselves are divided into the binary states of agents or victims.
Although recent scholarship on children and migration in Africa has acknowledged the importance of African children as discrete agents in migratory processes, analytical shortcomings remain.
Children & Migration in Africa: an Interdisciplinary Perspective
The two day worksop is co-organised by the Centre of African Studies (SOAS, University of London); the Institute of Historical Research (University of London); Institut des Sciences Humaines (University of Liège – Belgium)
<p><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/cas/events/conferences/24may2012-cfp-aegis-thematic-workshop-children--migration-in-africa-an-interdisciplinary-perspective.html">Link to the workshop website</a>
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