Child migration and biopolitics : old and new experiences in Europe / Edited by Beatrice Scutaru and Simone Paoli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Childhood, migration and biopolitics in modern European history / Beatrice Scutaru & Simone Paoli -- I. Displacement -- The little people of the Exodus. French children's experiences of war mobility in spring 1940 / Camille Mahé -- The (bio)politics of relief: UN food policy towards displaced children in post-war Germany (1945-49) / Katherine Rossy -- Catholic humanitarianism and transnational adoptions of orphaned Indian youth (Belgium, 1970-1984) / Chiara Candaele -- "Unaccompanied children who disappear." Precariously mobile children and the humanitarian regime of deportation in Sweden / Maline Holmlund -- II. Retention -- "To build and be built:" Jewish displaced children in Post-War Italy, 1943-48 / Chiara Renzo -- The never forgotten Romanian children. Biopolitics, humanitarian aid and international adoption / Luciana Marioara Jinga -- ildren on the move in Europe, between biopolitics and human rights protection / Snejana Sulima -- Imprisoned to "Zoē": survival of unaccompanied and undocumented Afghan minors in Istanbul / Nihan Bozok & Mehmet Bozok -- III. Repatriation -- The Portuguese state and its emigrants: policy and practices in the repatriation of minors / Yvette Santos -- Custody battles for unaccompanied children of presumed Ukrainian origin under the UNRRA's/IRO's care, 1945-49 / Olga Gnydiuk -- Biopolitics, the state, and displacements of children in France between the end of World War II and the Fall of the Empire, 1945-1970 / Yves Denéchère -- ild migration governance as biopolitics: new perspectives on vulnerability and the child's best interest / Beatrice Scutaru & Simone Paoli.

"This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates children's experiences, views, priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents in their own migration. Using a great variety of methodologies (archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews) and sources (drawings, documents produced by governments and experts, films and press), the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within Europe, both West (Belgium, France, Germany) and East (Romania, Russia, Ukraine), South (Italy, Portugal, Turkey) and North (Sweden), enabling a deep understanding of the diversity of migrant childhoods in the European context"-- Provided by publisher.