TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schenck, Marcia C.
T1  - Small Strangers at the School of Friendship
BT  - Memories of Mozambican School Students to the German Democratic Republic
JF  - German Historical Institute Bulletin: German Historical Institute Washington Bulletin
N2  - “Why,” Francisca Isidro wonders, “did we have to leave our families and move so far away, only to come back as cooks, waitresses, sales assistants, and the like?” And she recalls: “We came back from our time in East Germany with professions that were not held in particu-larly high regard in Mozambique. Nobody understood why we didn’t return as engineers, doctors and teachers. ‘A waitress?,’ they would wonder. ‘Why, they could have become a waitress in Mozambique. Nobody needs to spend so many years in school for that.’”2And with that, Ms. Isidro puts her fi nger right on a misapprehension at the heart of an ambitious state-led education migration program that saw 900 Mozambican children attend the School of Friendship (Schule der Freundschaft  , SdF) in Staßfurt in the district of Magdeburg, in what today is Saxony-Anhalt, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) from 1982 to 1988.3 Ms. Isidro returned to Mozambique as a trained salesperson for clothing, a profession she neither chose nor ever worked in again subsequently. Like her, these 900 children had to navigate the diverging values that particular environments bestowed upon knowledge. What they learned was interpreted diff  erently in their home communities, at the SdF, and in their German host families
KW  - Migration, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Mosambik, Schule der Freundschaft
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-494614
UR  - https://perspectivia.net/publikationen/bulletin-of-the-ghi-washington-supplements
VL  - 2020
IS  - 15: Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives
SP  - 41
EP  - 59
PB  - German Historical Institute
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - McLaughlin, Carly
T1  - They don’t look like children
BT  - child asylum-seekers, the Dubs amendment and the politics of childhood
T2  - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
N2  - In October 2016, following a campaign led by Labour Peer Lord
Alfred Dubs, the first child asylum-seekers allowed entry to the UK
under new legislation (the ‘Dubs amendment’) arrived in England.
Their arrival was captured by a heavy media presence, and very
quickly doubts were raised by right-wing tabloids and politicians
about their age. In this article, I explore the arguments
underpinning the Dubs campaign and the media coverage of
the children’s arrival as a starting point for interrogating
representational practices around children who seek asylum. I
illustrate how the campaign was premised on a universal politics
of childhood that inadvertently laid down the terms on which
these children would be given protection, namely their innocence.
The universality of childhood fuels public sympathy for child
asylum-seekers, underlies the ‘child first, migrant second’
approach advocated by humanitarian organisations, and it was a
key argument in the ‘Dubs amendment’. Yet the campaign
highlights how representations of child asylum-seekers rely on
codes that operate to identify ‘unchildlike’ children. As I show, in
the context of the criminalisation of undocumented migrants‘,
childhood is no longer a stable category which guarantees
protection, but is subject to scrutiny and suspicion and can,
ultimately, be disproved.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 150 
KW  - Politics of childhood
KW  - child asylum-seekers
KW  - innocence
KW  - humanitarianism
KW  - ‘refugee crisis’
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412803
ER  -