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