Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations

Drawing from discussions that pulled together child researchers working near the borders of Mexico, the United States and Canada, the essays in this collection explore how material and metaphoric borders give way to a young people's experimentations with cultural, social and political change. The essays highlight the capacities of children to revolutionize thought and practice through creative re-imagining of the boundaries, borders, events, circumstances and familial relations that affect their every day lives.The first four essays in the collection, in different ways, highlight borders and movements through them as a bricolage of images, symbols, tensions and joys. In the second section, the idea of a portable border is explored in three essays that consider a migrants' lifecourse, citizenship and political activism respectively. The last section of the collection brings together three papers that uncover how youth resist, confront and transform the borders that envelop their lives. By weaving narratives pertaining to young people's creative stories, transnational migrations, personal identities, pen-pal programs, masculinites, inter-generational change, border crossings, political activism and addictions, the essays in this collection in toto raise the idea of young people taking bounded and embodied events, places and institutions and moving them towards something emancipatory sin fronteras - without borders.This book was published as a special issue of Children's Geographies .