Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface
Jo Boyden

Introduction
Jason Hart

PART I: ADOLESCENCE IN CONTEXT

Chapter 1. Reconstructing Adolescence after Displacement: Experience from Eastern Africa
Hirut Tefferi

Chapter 2. Doing Nothing and Being Good: Social Relationships and Networks of Support among Adolescent Congolese Refugees in Dar es Salaam
Gillian Mann

Chapter 3. Growing Up in Exile: Psychosocial Challenges Facing Refugee Youth in the United States
Kenneth E. Miller, Hallie Kushner, Jill McCall, Zoë Martell and Madhur Kulkarni

PART II: ADOLESCENTS ENGAGING IN POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Chapter 4. Political Transition and Youth Violence in Post-apartheid South Africa: In Search of Understanding
Andrew Dawes

Chapter 5. Abject Heroes: Marginalised Youth, Modernity and Violent Pathways of the Liberian Civil War
Mats Utas

Chapter 6. UNHCR and the Military Recruitment of Adolescents
Hanne Beirens

PART III: GENDERED ADOLESCENCE IN EXILE

Chapter 7. The Long Road Home: Adolescent Afghan Refugees in Iran Contemplate ‘Return’
Homa Hoodfar

Chapter 8. Dislocated Masculinity: Adolescence and the Palestinian Nation-in-exile
Jason Hart

PART IV: RESPONDING TO ADOLESCENTS

Chapter 9. The Challenges of Programming with Youth in Afghanistan
Joanna de Berry

Chapter 10. Adolescence and Armed Conflict in Colombia: ‘Resilience’ as a Construction Emerging within Psychosocial Work
Diana Isabel Alvis Palma

PART V: RESEARCHING WITH ADOLESCENTS

Chapter 11. Participatory Research with War-affected Adolescents and Youth: Lessons Learnt from Fieldwork with Youth Gangs in Ayacucho, Peru
Cordula Strocka

Chapter 12. The Place to Be? Making Media with Young Refugees
Liesbeth de Block

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jason Hart is a Senior Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

Reviews

“[This book] is a very ambitious project seeking to furnish the reader with a more holistic and yet culturally sensitive understanding of the problem…The authors’ passionate engagement with the issues of children affected by war makes the book an interesting read and a significant contribution into the lives of the young in conflict and displacement settings.”  ·  Journal of International Migration and Integration