What can we learn from children traversing the liminal and transient time-space of migration?
How do migrant children and their caretakers navigate educational systems in Europe today? How
is it to be captive in an inner city classroom? How do children's body language and verbal
dominant languages interface? How does a child become mediator between their family and the
educational institutions? This anthropologically grounded study integrated by ethnographic
film excerpts and based on a culturally-reflexive approach to the use of media in the research
practices explores the transcultural experience of migrant children between 6 and 13 years by
closely analysing the particular codes rhythms and practices of educational systems in Ireland
and France. The children's experiences are represented in both the film sequences and the
written text in the form of their personal shared viewpoints about cultural diversity
biographical accounts and social practices in the family and at school. These are experiences
which they have worked through from a time preceding migration and to the present. The film
captures the sensibilities of migrant children and invites the reader viewer to embark on these
somewhat uneven paths.
