a credit union on a campus in Taiwan
Hao-Che Pei and Chiung-wen Chang
16‘If you think about the future you are just troubling yourself’: uncertain futures among caregiving and non-caregiving youth in Zambia
Caroline Day
17Conclusions and futures
Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall and John Horton
Index
Figures
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2.2Norra Real and Viktor Rydbergs gymnasium Odenplan
2.3Two independent schools inhabiting office and residential buildings
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
