Fresh Perspectives on Children and Youth Citizenship

During the past three decades, interest in children and young people’s agency, youth civic participation, activism and citizenship experiences has grown across multiple sectors and children and youth citizenship studies has expanded and developed considerably. The chapters in this “Citizenship” part of the Handbook take stock of the research trajectory to date, as well as open up fresh ways of understandings and being young citizens (in the Global South, through transnational and digital affiliations and non-traditional forms of citizenship participation and status). Collectively the chapters critique exclusionary practices which restrict children and young people’s citizenship to “apprenticeship” models as well as identifying emerging debates, blind spots and the ongoing lack of representation and rights of some diverse groups of youth which need further interrogation.