Children Who ‘Choose' to Migrate:
Why, How and With What Effects

Panel at Childhoods 2005 Conference, Oslo

Papers presented (click on the link to download paper in PDF format):

• Voluntary Autonomous Child Migration: Perspectives from Bangladesh by Sumaiya Khair
• The Costs and Benefits of Children's Independent Migration from Northern to Southern Ghana by John K Anarfi and Stephen O Kwankye
• Exploring the Linkages between Children's Independent Migration and Education: Evidence from Ghana by Iman M Hashim
• Child Migrants in Transit Strategies to Become Adult in Rural Burkina Faso by Dorte Thorsen
• Child migration, Child Agency and Intergenerational Relations in Africa and South Asia by Ann Whitehead, Iman M Hashim and Vegard Iversen