Introduction to Movement, Mobilities, and Journeys in Geographies of Children and Young People

Abstract

The chapter introduces the volume on “Movement, Mobilities and Journeys” from the “Geographies of Children and Young People” series. The “Movement, Mobilities and Journeys” volume presents a rich collection of current research which explores the multiple and complex ways in which children and young people experience different types of movements, (im)mobilities, and journeys at different geographical scales and in a variety of geographical contexts. The 21 chapters in the “Movement, Mobilities and Journeys” volume address a number of core themes: the conceptualization of children and young people’s migrations and mobilities; the relationship(s) between mobility, immobility and social and spatial exclusion; the significance of education-relation international youth mobility and migration; the (im)mobilities of children and young people in localities and city spaces; the ways in which migrant children construct senses of belonging (or not) in host societies; and the roles of borders and family networks in shaping the migrations and mobilities of children and young people. The chapters in the collection highlight the wealth of current research in the area, pointing to fruitful directions for future theoretical, conceptual, and methodological agendas, and taken together, they provide a valuable platform from which to further enhance geographical understandings of children’s and young people’s movements, (im)mobilities, and journeys.