Frontiers of Belonging

Annika Lems is head of the independent research group Alpine Histories of Global Change: Time, Self, and the Other in the German-Speaking Alpine Region at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. She is author of Being-Here: Placemaking in a World of Movement and lives in Halle, Germany.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. On Doing "Being Normal"2. The Model(led) Pupil3. The Poster Child of Integration4. The Unlucky Many5. The Integration Pilot6. Existential Balancing ActsBibliographyIndex

"This book makes important contributions to scholarship in the fields of anthropology and refuge/migration studies. Most ethnographies of forced migration tend to focus on adult refugees. Lems provides an intimate, close-up look into the experiences of teenage unaccompanied minors."—Nell Gabiam, Iowa State University"Frontiers of Belonging beautifully and tragically renders the concept of 'exclusive inclusion' by exploring the stories of several unaccompanied refugee youth in Switzerland. . . . It calls our attention to the vast discrepancy between who refugees know themselves to be and what the Swiss bureaucracy, and the pedagogical agents (pedagogues) who come into everyday contact with refugees believes they are. . . . It is emotionally evocative and thought provoking."—Jennifer Riggan, Arcadia University