Varvantakis, Christos; Dragonas, Thalia; Askouni, Nelly and Nolas, Sevasti-Melissa. 2018. Grounding Childhood (Trans)National Identities in the Everyday. Children & Society, 33(1), pp. 68-81. ISSN 0951-0605 [Article]

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This paper engages with the lived and experiential aspects of (trans)national identities in childhood, through the exploration of an ethnographic biography of a Greek-Albanian boy in Athens. Through a grounded ethnographic approach, we examine the ways in which he experiences and negotiates his (trans)national identity. Our analysis demonstrates the everyday subtle and sophisticated understanding of the complexities and contradictions of national identities, and the child’s own positioning within that. In conclusion, we suggest that interdisciplinary approaches should be assumed in the study of (trans)national identities in childhood, and ones that are grounded in children’s own meaning making of their experiences of such identities.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12299
Additional Information:	The research was funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC-StG-335514) to Sevasti-Melissa Nolas. The research in Athens was managed by Christos Varvantakis who also carried out all the fieldwork. Nelly Askouni and Thalia Dragonas are study advisors who contributed to the analysis presented in this paper.
Keywords:	agency, ethnicity, international childhoods, national identity, transnational families
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 26 September 2018 Accepted 14 October 2018 Published Online 21 December 2018 Published
Item ID:	24453
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2018 09:45
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2019 01:26
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24453

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