Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies

Doris Bühler-Niederberger is Rudolf Carnap Senior Professor at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.Xiaorong Gu is Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University of Suffolk, UK.Jessica Schwittek is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.Elena Kim is Professor of Social Sciences at the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan.

• Introduction; Doris Bühler-Niederberger, Xiarong Gu, Jessica Schwittek, and Elena Kim SECTION ONE – INTRODUCTION Childhood On A Modern Drive: Growing Up In East Asia; Xiaorong Gu Chapter 1. Can Subaltern Children Speak? What China’s Children of Migrants say about Mobility, Inequality and Agency; Xiaorong Gu Chapter 2. Emotional Dimensions of Transnational Education: Parent-Child Relationships of the Chinese “Parachute Generation” in the United States; Siqi Tu Chapter 3. Fluid Childhoods: Chinese Migrants’ Descendants Growing up Transnationally; Laura Lamas-Abraira Chapter 4. Transformations of Early Childhood in Japan: From Free Play to Extended Education; Frederick De Moll and Akihide Inaba SECTION TWO – INTRODUCTION Multiplicity And Fundamental Inequality Of Childhoods In South Asia; Doris Bühler-Niederberger and Asma Khalid Chapter 5. Return Migration, Parenting, and The Subcontinent: Parents and Youths’ Perspectives of Life In India; Adrienne Lee Atterberry Chapter 6. Pluralizing Indian childhood: Children’s Experiences and Adult-Child Relations in Urban and Rural Contexts; Ravneet Kaur Chapter 7. Childhood Construction: Intergenerational Relations in the Afghan Refugee Community Living in Pakistan; Asma Khalid SECTION THREE – INTRODUCTION Living as a Child in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Türkiye: Navigating Between Solidarity, Collective Pressures, and Kinship Support in the Times of Disruption; Elena Kim and Doris Bühler-Niederberger Chapter 8. “I Thought I’d Kill Myself When I Grew Up”: Queer Childhood Narratives in Kazakhstan; Mariya Levitanus Chapter 9. Adolescents’ Migration Aspirations in Kyrgyzstan: A Migration Project as a “Collective Project” of the Family; Ekaterina ChicherinaChapter 10. Sociomaterial Analysis of Azerbaijani Children’s Smartphone Use: Generational Ordering Through User-Technology Interactions; Aysel Sultan, Doris Bühler-Niederberger, and Nigar NasrullayevaChapter 11. Türkiye - Negotiating More Adulthood in an “In-Between” Country; Aytüre Türkyilmaz Chapter 12. Grandparenting the Firstborn in Central Asia: Exploring the ‘Nebere Aluu’ Practice; Elena Kim SECTION FOUR – INTRODUCTION Childhood and Youth In Southeast Asia: Confronting Diversity And Social Change; Jessica Schwittek and Elizer Jay de los Reyes Chapter 13. Parenthood vs Childhood: Young People’s Generational Rebellion in Thailand; Giuseppe Bolotta Chapter 14. Refusing the Mobility Imperative among the Left-Behind Generation in the Northern Philippines; Elizer Jay de los Reyes Chapter 15. Social Relatedness and Forenaming in “Mixed” Families: Valuing Children of Filipino-Belgian Couples; Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot Chapter 16. “In This Way My Parents Could Really Develop”: Individualized Interdependence in Viet-German Families; Jessica Schwittek, Doris Bühler-Niederberger, and Kamila Labuda

The book not only constitutes a useful resource for readers of Children’s Geographies; arguably its relevance is even greater for childhood and youth studies scholars based in Asian contexts who hopefully benefit most from the volume’s Open Access format.