2.4Three independent schools using a former office building
4.1Examples of 24-hour cafés in Seoul
4.2The night-time studying tribe
4.3Contradictory images within a 24-hour café
5.1Lily auctioned her pigs at the county fair to help pay for college and reduce her loan debt
8.1On the move: travelling for work in drought-prone Hetosa, Ethiopia
8.2Migrants at work in the urban construction sector in Nepal
11.1Unemployment rate of immigrants and Canadian-born, aged 25–54, Canada, 2006–11, 3-month moving average (3MMA)
11.2Percentage of males, 25–54 years old, by visible minority group, employed in the manufacturing sector, Toronto, 2006
15.1The DHCCU leaflets
15.2Discussion session during a micro-course on self-reviewing personal finance
15.3Visit to the Seed Co-operative
Tables
7.1Research methods used in Bangladesh and India
7.2Primary and subsidiary occupations for Bangladeshi and Indian men and women surveyed in this project
11.1Characteristics of 25–29 year olds in Toronto census metropolitan area, by gender, visible minority category and immigration status, percentage with a university degree in 2016
11.2Sectors with major employment changes, 2006–11, Toronto census metropolitan area
11.3Labour market indicators, Filipino (ethnic origin), Toronto, 2006–11
Dena Aufseeser is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. She does research in social policy, geography and urban studies and poverty studies. Her current projects include ‘Child migration, rights and inequality in Peru’ and ‘Child poverty and inequality in Baltimore, historically and today’. She also does research on motherhood and housing instability.
Anki Bengtsson holds a PhD in Education from Stockholm University, Sweden. She currently works as a senior lecturer at the Department of Education, Stockholm University. Her research interests concern policy, politics of education as well as the geography of education. Among other things, Anki has done research about teachers who recently migrated to Sweden and their studies in a supplementary, teacher training programme.
Michael Boampong is Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the Open University, UK. His most recent research explored the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on young people’s everyday life within Ghanaian transnational households. His research interest concerns how globalisation and international political economy impacts childhood, transnational childhoods and youth transitions as well as creative and participatory research methods. Previously, he served a migration and youth policy specialist to several United Nations agencies and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Michael is the author of the United Nations flagship publication Youth and Migration (2013). He is currently the lead consultant to the Government of Ghana in the review of Ghana’s National Youth Policy.
Jacob Breslow is Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality at the LSE Department of Gender Studies, UK. His primary line of research is on contemporary social justice movements in the US, and the ways in which the idea of childhood works within and against them. His book, which explores childhood’s relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness and deportability, is entitled Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child (2021) and is being published with the University of Minnesota Press. His research has been published in Comparative American Studies (2020), American Quarterly (2019), Porn Studies (2018) and Transgender Studies Quarterly (2017). Currently, he is extending his research on trans* childhood, and he is working on a special issue tentatively entitled Queer and Trans Geographies of Accommodation and Displacement.
Chiung-wen Chang is Assistant Professor at the National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. Her work has focused upon geographies of alternative economies with special concern about the ways that people situated in marginal areas/status act collectively in response to capitalist hegemony of neoliberalist economy. Her previous study was to look at knowledge transfer systems of organic farming among smallholders. She is now engaged in practices of post-capitalist communing. One programme is the initiation of credit union movement on campus. It aims at enhancing financial literature and encouraging young people to help each other through a campus-based credit union. Another is cooperative-informed participation in eastern Taiwan. An on-going project is to co-work with activists of animal welfare to support the elders to develop backyard poultry by setting up micro-businesses in a cooperative form. It is to connect community practices of solidarity economy to ideas of active aging and animal welfare at a community level.
Caroline Day is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Caroline’s research interests focus on a number of issues that fall within the wider discourse of International Development. These include children, young people and families, HIV and AIDS, disability and caregiving and the wider role that gender plays in the development of the global South. Caroline’s work has most often focused on vulnerable children and young people in both the UK and Africa, examining how issues such as caregiving, bereavement, poverty, disability and special needs, substance misuse, sexual exploitation and homelessness can socially exclude young people from mainstream society.
Denise Goerisch is Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. She received her PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the socioeconomic lives of children and young people, care ethics, and geographies of education. She has published on topics related to emotional labour and girlhood, children’s work and play, leadership in informal education spaces, popular geopolitics and care, faculty labour, mentoring practices in higher education, college affordability and feminist methodologies.
Carlie Goldsmith is Visiting Research Fellow at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK. Carlie previously worked as a senior lecturer in criminology for six years before founding the research organisation and consultancy North RTD in 2013. Over her career, Carlie has managed local, regional and national research and evaluation in criminal justice, offending, public health, community engagement, bereavement, financial capability and suicide prevention.
Sarah Marie Hall is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research sits in the broad field of feminist political economy: understanding how socio-economic processes are shaped by gender relations, lived experience and social difference. Recent research projects focus on everyday life and economic change, including empirical work in the context of austerity, Brexit and devolution. She is currently Co-Editor of the international academic journal Area.
John Horton is based in the Faculty of Education and Humanities at the University of Northampton, UK. His research explores the spaces, cultures, politics, playful practices and social-material exclusions of contemporary childhood and youth in diverse international contexts. John is currently one of the editors of the international academic journal Social & Cultural Geography, and previously edited the international academic journal Children’s Geographies. John is also Series Editor of a new major book series on Spaces of Childhood and Youth for Routledge.