About the Author

Rachel Rosen is an Associate Professor at the UCL Social Research Institute, UK. Her research focuses on children and families with precarious immigration status, and their practices of sustenance and care at the intersections of neoliberal welfare and border regimes. Her current research includes Children Caring on the Move and Solidarities: Negotiating migrant deservingness. Rachel is co-author of Negotiating Adult-Child Relationships in Early Childhood Research (2014, Routledge), and co-editor of Reimagining Childhood Studies (2019, Bloomsbury Academic), Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes? (2018, UCL Press), and Childhood, parenting culture, and adult-child relations in global perspectives (FRS, 2020). Elaine Chase is Professor in Education, Wellbeing and Development at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, UK. Her research focuses on the wellbeing outcomes of young people and communities, particularly those most likely to experience disadvantage and marginalisation. Elaine was PI on the ESRC-funded Becoming Adult Project and is currently PI on the GCRF-Cluster funded project: Life Facing Deportation. She is also CI on the ESRC/AHRC Migration Leadership Team and several ESRC-funded projects including RELIEF 1 & 2; Children Caring on the Move; Lives on Hold our Stories Told; and Connecting During Covid She is first author of Youth Migration and the Politics of Wellbeing: Stories of Life in Transition (2021), Bristol University Press. Sarah Crafter is a Professor in Cultural-Developmental Psychology in the School of Psychology and Counselling at the The Open University, UK. Her work is broadly interested in young people’s migration experiences and how they impact on their everyday lives, particularly transitions to adulthood. Sarah is PI on the ESRC-funded research project Children Caring on the Move and is also a partner and work package co-lead on an EU Horizon 2020 project called NEW ABC: Networking the educational world: Across boundaries for community-building. Sarah is an Editor for the journal Children & Society and an Associate Editor for the European Journal for the Psychology of Education. She is first author of Developmental transitions: Exploring stability and change through the lifespan (2019, Routledge). Valentina Glockner is a Professor in Childhood Studies at the Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas at CINVESTAV, Mexico. Her research focuses on child migration, forced displacement, and child labor, and their links to governmentality and humanitarianism. Her work results from the interweaving of participatory research, collaborative ethnography, and audio visual and artistic methodologies that privilege self-representation. She co-directed the bilingual project on digital humanities Infancias en Movimiento on child migration in the Americas. Sayani Mitra is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at The Open University, UK, working on an ESRC-funded research project Children Caring on the Move. She is a sociologist with interest in reproductive sociology, reproductive technologies, social reproduction, political economy, migration, ethnography and comparative research. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany. She is the co-editor of Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel (2018, Palgrave Macmillan).