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.

• 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

"I appreciate the opportunity to read this insightful publication. I recommend it to children’s studies practitioners in all disciplines, as well as those actively engaged in humanitarian aid and in equity programme delivery." - Mavis Duncanson, University of Otago