Introduction – Children and Youths’ Migration in a Global Landscape: Young Lives Lived in Motion

As globalization continues to affect every aspect of contemporary life, new communication and transportation technologies allow frequent and multidirectional flows of people, ideas, goods, and cultural practices. Consequently, increasing numbers of children and youth are becoming more involved in migration, whether they are physically mobile or otherwise involved in transnational networks. Indeed, migration as an actual part of one’s life history or as an imagined future has become an important dimension of the lived experiences of many children and youth globally. Additionally, the relatively young are growing up in a world characterized by different forms of mobility that are complex, multidirectional and increasingly dynamic (Sheller & Urry, 2006; Urry 2007; Veale & Donà, 2014).