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Adolescent Girls' Migration in The Global South

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The introductory chapter presents the background of the research project on which the book is based and sets out its main theme. It explains the choice of the three case studies (Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sudan) and then moves on to the academic debates about gender, adolescence, transitions and migration. The chapter explains the importance of exploring the link between migratory choices and trajectories and adolescence as a phase in life in which critical transitions take place. The book takes a broader view of adolescence as a particular life phase and argues that contrary to approaches that confine adolescents (and children) to the passive position of incomplete human beings, who are in the process of being socialized into adult social roles, young people are active agents engaged in the construction of their social identities through on-going processes of negotiation within social relations. The chapter presents the main research questions and briefly introduces the remaining chapters of the book.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See also https://www.odi.org/projects/2590-transforming-lives-adolescent-girls, retrieved 7 September 2017.

  2. 2.

    The school of Ego Psychology to which Erikson belongs focuses on the study of the so-called realistic Ego or self.

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    All names of research participants have been changed to protect their anonymity.

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Grabska, K., de Regt, M., Del Franco, N. (2019). Girls, Transitions and Migration. In: Adolescent Girls' Migration in The Global South. Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00093-6_1

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