This original book explores the importance of geographical processes for policies and professional practices related to childhood and youth. Contributors from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds explore how concepts such as place, scale, mobility and boundary-making are important for policies and practices in diverse contexts.

Peter Kraftl is a senior lecturer in human geography at the University of Leicester. John Horton and Faith Tucker are both senior lecturers at the Centre for Children and Youth at the University of Northampton.