Children, Young People and Borders

Machteld Venken is Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) of the University of Luxembourg. Her research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science. Virpi Kaisto is PhD Researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland. She specialises in the study of borderlands, mental borders and processes of bordering, and border twin cities. Her doctoral dissertation studies the Finnish-Russian borderland with visual and ethnographic research methods. Chiara Brambilla is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo (Italy). Her research focuses on anthropology, critical geopolitics and epistemology of borders; border studies and border theory; the Mediterranean border-migration nexus; border aesthetics; urban ethnography and borders in cities; and borders in Africa.

Introduction - Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook 1. Borderland Child Heterotopias. A Case Study on the Belgian-German Borderlands 2. Be(com)ing "German". Borderland Ideologies and Hitler Youth in NS-occupied Slovenia (1941–1945) 3. Bordering and Repatriation: Displaced Unaccompanied Children from the Polish–Ukrainian Borderland after World War II 4. Passing by In/Visibly: The Lone Child in the Croatian Section of the Balkan Refugee Corridor 5. The Humanitarianization of Child Deportation Politics 6. Mental Mapping as a Method for Studying Borders and Bordering in Young People’s Territorial Identifications 7. Creating Change in Higher Education Through Transfronterizx Student-led Grassroots Initiatives in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region