This book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.

Introduction ~ John Horton, Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Sarah Marie Hall PART I: Transformations Reconceptualising inner-city education? Marketisation, strategies and competition in the gentrified city ~ Eric Larsson and Anki Bengtsson Youth migration to Lima: vulnerability or opportunity, exclusion or network-building? ~ Dena Aufseeser Sleepless in Seoul: understanding sleepless youth and their practices at 24-hour cafés through neoliberal governmentality ~ Jonghee Lee- Caldararo ‘Live like a college student’: student loan debt and the college experience ~ Denise Goerisch ‘Everywhere feels like home’: transnational neoliberal subjects negotiating the future ~ Michael Boampong PART II: Intersections/inequalities Negotiating social and familial norms: women’s labour market participation in rural Bangladesh and North India ~ Heather Piggott Marginalised youth perspectives and positive uncertainty in Addis Ababa and Kathmandu ~ Vicky Johnson and Andy West Infantilised parents and criminalised children: the frame of childhood in UK poverty discourse ~ Aura Lehtonen and Jacob Breslow Learning to pay: the financialisation of childhood ~ Carl Walker, Peter Squires and Carlie Goldsmith Immigration, employment precarity and masculinity in Filipino- Canadian families ~ Philip Kelly The undeserving poor and the happy poor: interrelations between the politics of global charity and austerity for young people in Britain ~ Ruth Cheung Judge PART III: Futures Looking towards the future: intersectionalities of race, class and place in young Colombians’ lives ~ Sonja Marzi ‘My aim is to take over Zane Lowe’: young people’s imagined futures at a community radio station (UK) ~ Catherine Wilkinson Dependent subjects and financial inclusion: launching a credit union on a campus in Taiwan ~ Hao-Che Pei and Chiung-wen Chang ‘If you think about the future you are just troubling yourself’: uncertain futures among caregiving and non-caregiving youth in Zambia ~ Caroline Day Conclusions and futures: growing up and getting by ~ Helena Pimlott-Wilson, Sarah Marie Hall and John Horton

The first dedicated edited collection exploring the transformative, international impacts of austerity, economic crisis and neoliberalism – and their intersections with contemporary inequalities – for children, young people and families