Migrant Childhoods and Temporalities in India

A Reflective Engagement with Dominant Discourses

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ID22124209
AuthorsVijitha Rajan (0000-0001-7695-7245, Azim Premji University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Pages30-43
Publication date2023-01-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Childhood Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2371-4107 • E-ISSN: 2371-4115
PublisherUniversity of Victoria Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18357/jcs202320499
OpenAlexW4318214796
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited35

Temporality is recognized as critical to the understanding of childhoods by contemporary scholars of childhood. This paper explores the varying temporalities through which marginal childhoods (and their educational inclusion), particularly those situated in contexts of temporary internal migration, are constructed in the Indian context. Drawing on ethnographic data from the city of Bangalore, this paper problematizes how dominant ideals around migration, childhood, and schooling frame migrant children’s lives through linear temporalities. Furthermore, the paper argues that policy interventions that ostensibly include migrant childhoods do not engage critically with the politics of linear temporality which, in turn, is central to the exclusionary dynamics of migrant children’s schooling

Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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