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Title: | My children, myself: Speaking for young citizens abroad | Authors: | Starkweather, S. | Keywords: | Americans abroad Children Citizenship Parents United states |
Issue Date: | 2009 | Citation: | Starkweather, S. (2009). My children, myself: Speaking for young citizens abroad. Children's Geographies 7 (1) : 99-103. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733280802576093 | Abstract: | Early activism by groups representing American citizens living abroad was motivated by parents' concerns about the citizenship status of children born outside the United States. In this essay I discuss a 1971-2 letterwriting campaign which involved American parents speaking on behalf of the rights of their minor children in a way that facilitated a simultaneous looking forward into the child's future, and looking backward to the parent's origins. Thus parents' representations of the child-citizen positioned them as agents of both nostalgia and futurity within the American family abroad. © 2009 Taylor & Francis. | Source Title: | Children's Geographies | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/49778 | ISSN: | 14733285 | DOI: | 10.1080/14733280802576093 |
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