Ngutuku, Eliza (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 |
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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: | 12 Aug 2024 03:34 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120911 |
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