Adolescent Girls' Migration in The Global South: Transitions into Adulthood

1.      Girls, Transitions and Migration

1.1.Time to listen to girls

1.2.Setting the scene

Adolescence: A broader approach

Gendered adolescence

1.3.Migration and transitions

1.4.Our methodological approach

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2.      Doing Research among Migrant and Refugee Girls

2.1  Research approach: Feminist methodologies

2.2  Research methods and research participants

2.3  Challenges, constraints and limitations

2.4  Collaborative filmmaking

2.5  Towards comparative co-production of research on migration and displacement

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3.      Situating Girls' Migration in Three Contexts

3.1 Migration trends

Bangladesh

Ethiopia

Sudan

3.2 Locating adolescent girls' migration

Bangladesh

Ethiopia

Sudan

3.3 Politics and policies

3.4 City as a space

 Dhaka: Exploding with migrants

Khartoum: A city with many faces

3.5 Contrasting yet similar settings

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4.      Becoming a Migrant, Becoming a Refugee

4.1 "There is no room to dream": Helen's decision to leave

4.2 Researching the motives for migration

4.3 Complexities of migration decision-making

Narrating reasons to move through questionnaires

A life-course approach to studying migration motivations and decision-making

4.4 Beyond human rights discourses

4.5 Underneath the 'poverty' discourse

4.7 Family circumstances: A social relational approach to decision-making

4.8 Social networks: Beyond trafficking

4.9 Escape, vulnerability or agency?

4.10 The journey and the movement as relational

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5.      Life in the Cities

5.1 "Here there are things going on all the time": Sharmeen's encounters with the city

5.2 First impressions and experiences

5.3 Place-making projects in the city

Settling in and housing arrangements

Working and earning

Social life

5.5 Carving out a space for herself in the city

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6.      Risks, Threats and Setbacks

6.1 "They used to call us cursed": Tigist's story

6.2 Risks and threats

Men and women as threats

Gender and sexuality as sources of risk

Access to education and work at risk

The risk of migration: travelling, working, socializing

6.3 Vulnerabilities

Being alone

Being a migrant girl        

6.4 Intersecting vulnerabilities: gender, age and migration

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7. Being Protected and Protecting Yourself

7.2 Governmental and organizational support and protection

7.3 Protecting themselves: Informal sources of protections

7.4 Building social capital

7.5 Locating social protection in trans-local networks

8. Surviving, Resisting and Moving Forward

8.1 "If my destiny is to live, I will live abroad, if my destiny is to die, I will die abroad": Lamia's story

8.2 Resilience: Capacity to deal with adverse circumstances

8.4 Moving forward or waiting: Aspirations and frustrations

8.5 "Small things" and "small steps"

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9. Beyond Survival: The Wider Implications of Girls' Migration

9.1 "Nothing changed": Arsema's life in perspective

9.2 Gradually supporting those left behind

9.3 Investing in the future of others

9.5 Small steps toward social transformation

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10. Transitions and Transformations

10.1 "I have a responsibility now... I have grown up": transitions into adulthood

10.2 Adolescence, transitions, life course and migration

Independent migration as a transition into adulthood

Capacity to understand and take decisions as a transition

Education, migration and transitions

Marriage and beyond: alternative ways of becoming an adult

10.3 Migration, transitions and being stuck

10.4 Back to gender relations and the life course: how they matter in the context of migration and transitions

10.5 Is migration good for girls and is this really a good question?

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