Adolescent Girls' Migration in The Global South: Transitions into Adulthood

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This book provides a nuanced, complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls’ migration and mobility in the Global South. The stories and the narratives of migrant girls collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sudan guide the readers in drawing the contours of their lives on the move, a complex, fluid scenario of choices, constraints, setbacks, risks, aspirations and experiences in which internal or international migration plays a pivotal role. The main argument of the book is that migration of adolescent girls intersects with other important transitions in their lives, such as those related to education, work, marriage and childbearing, and that this affects their transition into adulthood in various ways. While migration is sometimes negative, it can also offer girls new and better opportunities with positive implications for their future lives. The book explores also how concepts of adolescence and adulthood for girls are being transformed in the context of migration. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Girls, Transitions and Migration (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 1-29 Doing Research Among Migrant and Refugee Girls (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 31-51 Situating Girls’ Migration in Three Contexts (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 53-85 Becoming a Migrant, Becoming a Refugee (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 87-120 Life in the Cities (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 121-151 Risks, Threats and Setbacks (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 153-177 Being Protected and Protecting Yourself (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 179-197 Surviving, Resisting and Moving Forward (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 199-218 Beyond Survival: The Wider Implications of Girls’ Migration (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 219-241 Transitions and Transformations (Katarzyna Grabska, Marina de Regt, Nicoletta Del Franco)....Pages 243-264 Back Matter ....Pages 265-272