Drawing from discussions that pulled together child researchers working near the borders of Mexico, the United States and Canada, this book explores how material and metaphoric borders give way to young people's experimentations with cultural, social and political change. The contributors highlight the capacities of children to revolutionize thought and practice through creative re-imagining of the boundaries, borders, events, circumstances and familial relations that affect their everyday lives. The first section, in different ways, highlights borders and movements through them as a...

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children s Geographies, there s a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people...

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

There is an important and growing concern about young people's rights, the spaces from which those rights arise, and how those rights are enacted (or not) through space.

This book explores the curtailment of young people's spatial and citizenship rights in the face of seemingly free and open neoliberal statehood, and the ways young people push against those curtailments. With an in-depth case study of the Slovenian Izbrisani (literally 'erased') youth from 1992 to the present day, this book considers the spatial effects of the loss of legal status on young people. The case...