Jeunesse - Young People, Texts, Cultures (E-Journal)
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“I See Nothing but a Fence of Tears”: The Impact of Australia’s Immigration Detention and Border Protection Policies on the Asylum Seeker Child’s Geographies of Hope and Hopelessness
No full textAs a signatory to both the United Nation Refugee Convention and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Australia’s border protection policy to detain offshore asylum seekers who reach Australian borders by boat, including accompanied and unaccompanied minors, is under intense international scrutiny. In the context of Australia’s “Operation Sovereign Borders,” however, the asylum seeker child’s perspectives and their geographies of hope and hopelessness have not yet been fully explored. Drawing on recent literature within children’s geographies, which emphasizes the “emotional” matters within policy development and professional practice, and how they affect children, this paper seeks to contribute to emerging debates exploring borders, asylum seeker children, and children’s emotional geographies. Utilizing drawings, letters, and poems produced by children for an Australian Human Rights Commission’s National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention on Nauru, a child-centred approach was applied to privilege children’s own perspective of their indefinite internment. The primary focus of the paper is to emphasize the ways in which “the asylum seeker child” constructs their own emotional geographies within the inherently complex and restrictive context of Australia’s border protection policy.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.001
Toward a Transformative Education within Youth Media Production
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Jocson, Korina M. Youth Media Matters: Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education. U of Minnesota P, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2020.001
Introduction to Special Section—Youngsters 2: On the Cultures of Young People
No full textDOI: 10.1353/jeu.2020.000
Flourishing in Country: An Examination of Well-Being in Australian YA Fiction
No full textThis article is the result of a collaboration between two academics—one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous—to investigate the representation of Indigeneity in two contemporary YA novels. Melissa Lucashenko’s killing Darcy is narrated by multiple Indigenous and non-Indigenous characters, whereas Clare Atkins’s Nona and Me is told from the perspective of a white character and explores her relationship with an Indigenous community. Cultural identity forms a significant part of well-being, and this article investigates versions of sufficient well-being. It explores how the novels represent flourishing subjects—both Indigenous and non-Indigenous—in the context of Australia as it struggles to come to terms with its colonial past and demonstrates how cognitive mapping replaces damaging colonial assumptions about Indigenous Peoples with a model of overcoming
Writing Identities, Erasing Borders: The Night Diary, Front Desk, and Our Shared Story of Migration
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Hiranandani, Veera. The Night Diary. Kokila, 2018.
Yang, Kelly. Front Desk. Levine, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.0029
 
Utopian Grandparents
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Balasubramaniam, Saumiya. When I Found Grandma. Illustrated by Qin Leng, Groundwood, 2019. 32 pp. $17.95 hc. ISBN 9781773060194.
Chabbert, Ingrid. A Drop of the Sea. Illustrated by Guridi, Kids Can, 2018.
Lê, Minh. Drawn Together. Illustrated by Dan Santat, Disney Hyperion 2018.
Sage, James. Old Misery. Illustrated by Russel Ayto, Kids Can, 2018.
Uegaki, Cheri. Ojiichan’s Gift. Illustrated by Genevieve Simms, Kids Can, 2019.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.002
Beyond the Digital Border: Modern Life on the Network
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Barnard, Sara, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson, Eleanor Wood. Floored: When Seven Lives Collide. Macmillan Children’s Books, 2018.
McCulloch, Amy. Jinxed. Simon and Schuester, 2018.
Owen, David. All the Lonely People. Atom, 2019.
Steven, Laura. The Exact Opposite of Okay. Electric Monkey, 2018.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.003
Mille Pompons! Fantômette, the Famous, Unknown, Schoolgirl Superhero of France
Full text linkOne significant character in French and Francophone literature aimed at young girls is completely absent from English language culture. The books and other media about crime fighting schoolgirl Françoise Dupont / Fantômette have not been translated into English and are very sparsely represented in American and British libraries. She is ubiquitous enough in Francophone culture to be referred to without any explanation (much as English publications would reference a detective named Nancy or Hermione the witch). Who is this heroine and why have we never heard of her?
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2020.001
Whose Research Is It? Reflection on Participatory Research with Women and Girls with Disabilities in the Global South
No full textDrawing on the Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research, and Activism project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2016-2020), this article critically reflects on the project’s participatory research process that involved young women and girls with disabilities in the Global South. I discuss epistemological and methodological questions related to the deployment of decolonizing research methodologies in the Global South in relation to theoretical and methodological approaches for engaging girls with disabilities. I argue that a critical, reflexive, and decolonizing research approach that embodies knowledge from the Global South is essential for empowering these girls to express themselves through multiple forms of representation