This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their young, at-risk inhabitants. Looking at the lived experiences of poverty, drastic inequality, displacement, ecological degradation and war in countries including Haiti, Argentina and Palestine, the book shows how children both respond to and are shaped by their circumstances.

Introduction: Children in Crisis Manata Hashemi and Martín Sánchez-Jankowski 1. Street Children, AIDS Orphans, and Unprotected Minors: What You Read Is Not What You See Lewis Aptekarm 2. Longitudinal Repeated Ethnography: Theoretical Implications for a Cultural, Social Class and Gendered Understanding of Children on the Streets in Kenya Phillip Kilbride 3. Refugees in the Middle East: Identity Politics among Sahrawi, Palestinian, and Afghan Youth Dawn Chatty 4. No Balm in Gilead: Childhood, Suffering, and Survival in Haiti J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat 5. Children at Toxic Risk Javier Auyero 6. (Im)permeable Boundaries: Why Integration into Affluent White-Majority Schools for Low-Income Minority Students is Elusive Prudence L. Carter

Manata Hashemi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. She is also a Research Associate at the Center for Ethnographic Research at the University of California at Berkeley, where she holds a Ph.D. in sociology.

Martin Sanchez-Jankowski is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.