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

This book presents a comprehensive compilation of research findings and conceptualizations within the field of infancy. ......more

The idea for my mind map books came to me during a trip to Asia. On my travels, I like to browse through the children’s ......more

"Everyone has to grow up sometime and everyone has to grow up somewhere and I am delighted that I did it in the Fifties ......more

STAY AWAY FROM THE BAD COMPANY is a book based on a true story Olga is fed-up being unpopular and feeling lonely. What l......more

This Open Access book explores how teens use social media, how they produce, consume, and share sexual images, and how t......more

This book provides a critical examination of the problem of underage marriage in Türkiye through a sociological perspect......more

Human trafficking of children and young people is a major concern yet there is limited research on the lived experiences......more

A groundbreaking exploration of the ways in which the intelligence and abilities of children and young adults with autis......more

Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical re......more

Gaia Gianni’s All in the Family explores how children shaped the development of pseudo-familial bonds, or fictive kinshi......more

Why has Steven Spielberg’s work been so often identified with childhood and children? How does the director elicit such ......more

Why has Steven Spielberg’s work been so often identified with childhood and children? How does the director elicit such ......more

"The figure of the child has played a significant role in constituting both the self-image and international reputation ......more

"The figure of the child has played a significant role in constituting both the self-image and international reputation ......more

Resilience is more than survival--Wendy Sims-Schouten amplifies the resistant and transformative voices of marginalized ......more

The idea for my mind map books came to me during a trip to Asia. On my travels, I like to browse through the children’s ......more

Contributions by Daniela Brockdorff, Nina Christensen, Jill Coste, Katrin Dautel, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Giuliana Fe......more

Contributions by Daniela Brockdorff, Nina Christensen, Jill Coste, Katrin Dautel, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Giuliana Fe......more

First published in 1980 about a third of all British children found to be in need of statutory care were living at home ......more

Interruptions in Identity: Engaging with Suicidality among the Indian Youth explores the shift in the author’s perspecti......more

Children’s Boards in Museums outlines the innovative concept of a "Children’s Board", in which children actively partici......more

This volume focuses on the role of gender in young peoples’ digital sexual cultures in South Africa. Offering a snapshot......more

New kid. New rules. New chaos. Welcome to Lincoln Junior High! All he wants is to survive the school day, but when gym c......more

As in much of the world, societies in precolonial East Africa--what is now Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda--used rites of pa......more

In the magical realm of children’s play, toys and stories have a rich and complex relationship. In this collection, cont......more

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. School-to-work transition studies ha......more

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists to explores the d......more

This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children’s and young adult tal......more

The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children aims to bring child-centered approaches as applied ......more

Fostering to Adoption is a deeply moving and unflinchingly honest memoir that takes readers inside the heart of one fami......more

Why are so many children and teens today struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges, and wh......more

Children today discover a new digital drawing tool, the camera-crayon, at a very young age. They appropriate devices suc......more

The field of Children’s Rights Studies is well established and dominated by a top-down approach that considers these rig......more