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Book SynopsisThis book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.
Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction; Introduction ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall; Section 2: Transformations; Tackling family poverty: in the best interests of children? ~ John McKendrick; Spatial entitlement in an era of neo-liberal educational marketization – Inner city elite schools and the relationally defined counterparts (Sweden) ~ Eric Larsson and Elisabeth Hultqvist; Seasonal migration to Lima: Exclusion and opportunity? ~ Dena Aufseeser; Night-time geography and neoliberalism: a study of sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour-cafés in Seoul (South Korea) ~ Jonghee Lee; ‘Live like a college student’: Student Loan Debt and the College Experience (USA) ~ Denise Goersich; Section 3: Intersections/Inequalities; State, economic crises and the necessity of social reproduction: negotiated and constrained interdependencies ~ Michael Boampong; Negotiating Social and Familial Norms: Women's Labour Experiences in Rural Bangladesh and North India ~ Heather Piggott; Changing Definitions of (Child) Poverty: The Contested Spaces of Childhood and the Family In UK Austerity Politics ~ Jacob Breslow and Aura Lehtonen; Learning to Pay: the financialization of childhood; Masculinity and Intergenerational Mobility in Recessionary Times: The Case of Filipino-Canadian Male Youth Outcomes ~ Philip Kelly; Relational ecologies of care-experienced youth and the politicised ‘border’ of successful and failed transitions: the policy omnipresence of reaching ‘adult independence’ (UK and Australia) ~ Caroline Cresswell; Section 4: Futures; Looking Towards the Future: Young Colombians’ Aspirations and Social Mobility Boundaries ~ Sonja Marzi; “My aim is to take over Zane Lowe”: Young People’s Imagined Futures at a Community Radio Station (UK) ~ Catherine Wilkinson; Self-cultivating financial citizenship: A case of a campus-based credit union movement in Taiwan ~ Hao-Che Fei and Chiung-wen Chang; Section 5 – Concluding reflections; Reflections ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall.
