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This chapter therefore situates children’s mobilities in a wider context, explicating the key debates in children’s studies and in mobilities as well as overviewing relevant literature from across disciplines. The chapter analyses the ways in which childhood has been conceptualised in relation to mobilities based on existing debates on childhood and mobilities, drawing predominantly from developments in sociology and from transdisciplinary scholarship following the ‘mobilities turn’ in social science. We discuss the conceptual debates and developments around the mobilisation of childhood with attention to agency, risk and justice, moving towards theories of interdependence that set the scene for the elaboration of our conceptualisation of children’s mobilities as relational, interdependent and imagined.
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A tragic example of this is the unveiling, in the last couple of years, of 1313 deaths (including homicide, suicide and negligence, but most of them unexplained as there were only 23 autopsies conducted for 1313 death children), cases of sexual abuse (from peers and adult staff), poor material conditions and mental health issues experienced by children living under the estate protection system in Chile (SENAME) (Bio Bio 2017; INDH 2018).
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We discuss Alanen’s more recent work on generation in Chapter 4.
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In this sense, individualistic is that pertaining to the individual rather than Beck’s development of the concept that will be discussed later.
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Murray, L., Cortés-Morales, S. (2019). Conceptualising Children’s Mobilities. In: Children's Mobilities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52114-9_2
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