Re-imagining and repositioning the lived experience of children seen as outsiders in Kenya

Ngutuku, Eliza ORCID: 0000-0003-2070-9546 (2023) Re-imagining and repositioning the lived experience of children seen as outsiders in Kenya. Childhood, 31 (1). ISSN 0907-5682

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Abstract

This paper explores the contested identity and belonging for outsider-children in Kenya. I explore the experience of children born out of marriage, those from other unions, the emergent insider-outsider child and children labouring to belong. Locating this experience in a relatively protective customary and legal regime, the context of poverty and the local imaginaries of belonging reveals the complexities that animate children’s lives. I argue that children’s best interests as embedded in law, should enter into conversation with children’s lived realities.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://journals.sagepub.com/home/CHD
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author
Divisions:	?? FLIA ??
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	04 Dec 2023 11:30
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2024 00:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120911

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