Providing a comprehensive analysis of the increasingly common phenomenon of child migration, this volume examines the experiences of children in a wide variety of migratory circumstances including economic child migrants, transnational students, trafficked, stateless, fostered, unaccompanied and undocumented children.

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CAROLINE ARCHAMBAULT is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the UCU in Africa Field Studies and Development Internship Program at the University College Utrecht, the Netherlands LIESBETH DE BLOCK is Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK and a research officer in the Centre for the Study of Children Youth and Media, IOE DAVID BUCKINGHAM is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University od London, UK where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media MARISA O. ENSOR is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt ELIZABETH G. FERRIS is Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and co-director of The Brookings Institution University of Bern Project on Internal Displacement in Washington, D.C., USA CYNTHIA FIELD works closely with the Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons, USA EL?BIETA M. GO?DZIAK is the Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University, USA EDMUND HAMANN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA KARIN HEISSLER is a Child Protection Specialist with UNICEF DIANE M. HOFFMAN is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Education at the University of Virginia, USA JOOST DE LAAT is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Canada and human development economist at the World Bank LESLIE J. LIMAGE is a Comparative and International Education Expert. She recently retired from a career with the Education Sector, UNESCO, Paris, and previously the OECD, Paris, France MAUREEN LYNCH is Senior Advocate for Statelessness Initiatives at Refugees International (RI), an independent Washington-based refugee and humanitarian advocacy organization, USA ROBIN E. PIKE is Executive Director of the Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons, Government of British Columbia, Canada JUAN SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA is an Assistant Professor at the Escuela Normal Miguel F. Martinez in Monterrey, Mexico. SUSAN J. TERRIO is Professor of Anthropology and the inaugural chair of the new Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University, USA VÍCTOR ZÚÑIGA is the Dean of the School of Education and Humanities, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico.

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PART I: INTRODUCTION Migrant Children at the Crossroads; M.O.Ensor & E.M.Go?dziak PART II: UNDERSTANDING MIGRANT CHILDREN: RESEARCH, VOICE AND REPRESENTATION Understanding Migrant Children: Conceptualizations, Approaches and Issues; M.O.Ensor Child Migration in Haiti: Domestic Labor and the Politics of Representation; D.M.Hoffman At the Crossroads of Childhood, Media and Migration; L.de Block & D.Buckingham PART III: REVIEWING POLICIES: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANT CHILDREN The Production of Criminal Migrant Children: Surveillance, Detention, and Deportation in France; S.Terrio Protecting the Rights of Internally Displaced Children; E.Ferris Without Face or Future: Stateless Infants, Children, and Youth; M.Lynch PART IV: RETHINKING PRACTICES: CREATING SPACES FOR AGENCY Unaccompanied Minors at the Crossroads in British Columbia: Migration and Trafficking; R.E.Pike In the Best Interest of the Child: Perceptions, Responses and Challenges in Providing Assistanceto Trafficked Children in the United States; E.M.Go?dziak Social Mobility in Children's Mobility? An Investigation into Child Circulation among the Maasai of Kenya; C.Archambault PART V: SEARCHING FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES: WORKING AND LEARNING IN A NEW LAND Migrating with Honor: Sites of Agency and Power in Child's Labor Migration in Bangladesh; K.Heissler Transnational Students' Perspectives on Schooling in the US and Mexico: The Salience of School Experience and Country of Birth; T.Hamann, V.Zúñiga & J.Sánchez García Children of Migrant Heritage and Equality of Opportunity in France Migrants in France; L.J.Limage PART VI: CONCLUSIONS The Way Forward: Conclusions and Recommendations; E.M.Go?dziak & M.O.Ensor