Transnational practices and children’s local lives in times of economic crisis

Identity, culture and belonging: Educating young children for a changing world. TonyEaudeNew York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 240 pp. $120.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781350097803

“…For instance, scholars of geography studies have advised that as a result in the complexity of the migration experience, children's positions have become distinctive ones. Children have become social actors in the formation of new networks in navigating the realities of migration (Boampong, 2019). The author goes on to elaborate that across different societies and cultures concepts of childhood vary.…”

Book review: Marie Louise Seeberg and Elżbieta M Goździak, Contested Childhoods: Growing Up in Migrancy, Migration, Governance, Identities

“…The application of the twin concepts and empirical evidence on the situation of children in western destination countries, mainly Europe and United States of America, is useful to scholars in both spheres. It can stimulate new thinking on both the boundaries and intersections of contemporary neoliberal globalised migration and childhood practices (Boampong, 2020). The book’s focus on public policies and how they affect childhoods and migration processes will make it invaluable for those in geography, development studies or public policy.…”