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Examining the struggle of urban children to survive and the programmes and policies that are most effective in helping them, this volume uncovers the desperate situations and the resilience of street and working children, and their families. Based on field work carried out under the auspices of UNICEF in Brazil, Philippines, India, Kenya and Italy, the text offers critiques and recommendations for national, municipal and community action.

Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of...