This book explores the diverse spaces and discourses of children and youth globally, with a particular focus on gender, age and other socio-cultural differences such as race, ethnicity and migration trajectories. It provides an original contribution to geographies of children, youth and families and research on diversity and difference in global contexts.

1. Diverse spaces of childhood and youth: gender and other socio-cultural differences 2. Place, children's friendships, and the formation of gender identities in a Slovak urban neighbourhood 3. 'Girls just like to be friends with people': gendered experiences of migration among children and youth in returning Irish migrant families 4. The strength of weak ties: the social networks of young separated asylum seekers and refugees in London 5. In/visibility strategies and enacted diversity: sameness and belonging among young people of Latin American descent living in the north of England (UK) 6. Rhythmanalytical sketches: agencies, school journeys, temporalities 7. The 'unchildlike child': making and marking the child/adult divide in the juvenile court 8. Shaping children's mobilities: expectations of gendered parenting in the English rural idyll 9. Mobility, education and livelihood trajectories for young people in rural Ghana: a gender perspective 10. Risky positions? Shifting representations of urban youth in the talk of professionals and young people 11. Exploring parental concerns about children's interactions in gated communities: a case study in Istanbul 12. Defining and exploring public space: perspectives of young people from Regent Park, Toronto 13. Young people's participation in school design: exploring diversity and power in a UK governmental policy case-study 14. Korítsia, Bambini, Meninos, Niñas: a view of children's geographies in southern Europe