Youth and community work is a long-contested profession which has been challenged and required to adapt in order to addr......more

Youth and community work is a long-contested profession which has been challenged and required to adapt in order to addr......more

When some of our most vulnerable members of society go missing, they are exposed to different risks and possible harms w......more

This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex sto......more

This book focuses on how youth work and music is measured and valued. The collection explores the landscape of youth wor......more

This comprehensive text offers an accessible introduction to the field of childhood studies. Written by a team of higher......more

Child welfare systems around the world provide essential services to protect the lives of children who are abused and ne......more

This open-access volume is the first English-language study of the vibrant contemporary landscape of Italian youth-orien......more

Article 1 of the European Convention of Human Rights gives children the same protection of their fundamental rights and ......more

As seen in previous pandemics, girls and young women are particularly vulnerable as social issues such as homelessness, ......more

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of digital communication, catering to scholars, career starters, and indivi......more

Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory examines the ethnographic dilemmas that arose across the run of the Raising Spirit......more

From theoretical and practical considerations, this book explores children’s weaving of and distancing from family, cult......more

This book discusses regional and global discourses on the rights of children and especially girls. It focuses on social ......more

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Migration represents a challenge and opportunity. Among the world’s migrant......more

For too long, kinship and other forms of childhood care have been determined without a clear focus on children’s views. ......more

Bestselling author and advocate Dr. Monique Couvson makes a compelling, passionate case for why we should invest in girl......more

How do we better involve young children in the decision-making of their own social care? This book, developed from the E......more

The first chapter focuses on pedocentrism and offers a genealogical and critical analysis of the child-centered traditio......more

This open access book explores the everyday lives of young people living in rural areas in Nordic countries, drawing on ......more

This fully revised and expanded second edition of Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies presents an informed and cri......more

Drawing on the multinational qualitative study ’Children’s Understandings of Well-being’ (CUWB), this unique edited coll......more

A poignant exploration of the impact of histories of displacement and the subsequent marginalisations this causes on chi......more

Historical perspective shows that concerns about the "kids these days" are as old as civilization itself. Today’s young ......more