Resilience is more than survivalWendy Sims-Schouten amplifies the resistant and transformative voices of marginalized and displaced children across history.
Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices resists the way we think about resilience, shifting the focus from personal perseverance to the lived realities of children and young people pushed to societys margins. Wendy Sims-Schouten moves beyond the familiar idea of resilience as individual grit, instead exploring how defiance and even compliance emerge as survival strategies for care leavers, bullied youth, ethnic minorities, and those with histories of migration and displacement.
Spanning one hundred and fifty years of personal and collective histories, this book brings together interdisciplinary research co-produced with those too often left out of resilience studies. By centering their voices, it unveils how resilience is shaped not just by inner strength, but by systemic barriers and the availability of support. Revisiting Childhood Resilience calls on policymakers and practitioners to rethink resilience as something far more complex than an individual trait; a process deeply rooted in context and agency.
