Abstract Background One-in-ten Sri Lankans are employed abroad as International Labor
Migrants (ILM), mainly as domestic maids or low-skilled laborers. Little is known about the …

More than ever, young people move. Over the past few decades, political, economic, social
and demographic changes in many parts of the world have uprooted many people and …

This paper analyses the cultural production of the 'educated person'through student
migrants' engagement with ideas and practices of time. In particular, it pays attention to how …

This special issue of ChildrenVs Geographies builds upon a growing area of study on the
emotional and affectual experiences of migration as experienced by young people. The …

Compared to earlier periods, contemporary transnational migration is occurring against the
backdrop of a youthful developing world and aging industrialized societies (Adserà and …

This chapter focuses on the children of international migrant workers who remain in the
country of origin following parental migration, a population that has received limited attention …

Despite an increasing trend in labour migration and economic dependence on foreign
migrant workers in Sri Lanka, very little is known about the child care and nutritional status of …

Globalisation has facilitated massive flows of immigrant students of diverse backgrounds
into schools. These developments intensify concerns about immigrant youth's mobility and …

In 2009, a news story1 spread across Thailand. A poor 9-year-old boy, who sold fish at a
temple in northern Thailand to earn money so he could go to school, had been showing …

In a recent issue from Progress in Human Geography, Holloway et al.(2010) proposed that
engaging with the literature on children, youth and families advances our understanding of …