Table of Contents
1. Introduction: investigating youth and belonging
2. Expanding theoretical boundaries from youth transitions to belonging and new materiality
3. Surveillance, belonging and community spaces for young people from refugee backgrounds in Australia
4. Queering Timmies: theorising LGBTQ youth claiming and making space in Surrey, BC, Canada
5. ‘Adults decided our fate’: children and young people navigating space, territory and conflicting identities and the ‘new’ Northern Ireland
6. Travel imaginaries of youth in New York City: history, ethnicity and the politics of mobility
7. Women, spatial scales and belonging: signalling inequality in Latin America
8. Brotherhood and belonging: creating pedagogic spaces for positive discourses of Aboriginal youth
9. Belonging without believing? Making space for marginal masculinities at the Young Men’s Christian Association in the United Kingdom and The Gambia
10. Precarious class positions in Spam City: youth, place and class in the ‘missing middle’
11. Arenas of empowerment? Case study of a ‘multicultural’ high school in Oslo, Norway
12. Local and refugee youth in rural Australia: negotiating intercultural relationships and belonging in rural places
13. Politics of class and belonging in Pakistan: student learning, communities of practice and social mobility
14. Conclusion: youth and belonging: agency, place and negotiation