"Being Left Behind": An Ethnographic Study of Ecuadorian Primary School Children and Their Experience of Parental and Peer Migration

International migration is a well studied phenomenon
that has attracted the interest of scholars from
across various academic disciplines. However, to
date little is known about children''s participation
in processes of global migration. The present study
attempts to fill this gap in the migration
literature by providing detailed descriptive
accounts on primary school aged children''s
experience with parental and peer migration. The
central research questions that are addressed in
this book focus on the ideas of migration and
children''s sociality that circulate in children's
immediate surrounding; children's actual experience
of parental and peer migration; and the
transformations that family structures and
relationships undergo upon migration. A broad
descriptive approach and anthropological research
methods are employed to access children''s worlds at
home and at school and to shed light on their
experience of migration. This book is directed at
educators, international migration agencies,
educational departments, migration and childhood
researchers, and anyone interested in children''s
experience of parental and peer migration.