Childhoods and Systemic Inequalities

The session will be focusing on reviewing childhood as a process under systemic inequalities. We welcome papers that trace those inequalities through worldwide childhood experiences in different social and cultural contexts which include physical and digital environments. Following the context of the ISA Conference, we want to bring sociological attention to childhood experiences affected by new entanglements of religion, politics, and economies. There are different experiences in the real and cyberworlds. Contemporary childhood is interwoven with complexity with migratory processes, armed conflicts, pandemic issues, and domestic economic crises that lead them to be part of a vulnerable population, which is often invisible. Children who are left behind and benefit from having remittances from their immigrant parents, but are in turn subject to other deficiencies. Children who are the product of commercial agreements such as surrogacy processes. Children are subject to abuse in many different ways and subject to inequalities in access to resources, depending on gender, age, and ethnicity, which can leave children vulnerable to exploitation and neglect.

At this session, we would like to discuss more complex and thoughtful conceptual frameworks that allow us to address the complexity of the physical and virtual scenarios in which their identity is built.

Papers Wellcome in English, French, and Spanish.