Nigel Thomas is Professor of Childhood and Youth Research at the University of Central Lancashire and co-director of The Centre, which promotes and researches children's and young people's participation, inclusion and empowerment.

• Introduction: Children, politics and communication ~ Nigel Thomas; Charting change in the participatory settings of childhood: a very modest beginning ~ Roger Hart; Children's autonomous organisation: reflections from the ground ~ Vicky Johnson; The children of Loxicha: participation beyond the UNCRC rhetoric? ~ Anne-Marie Smith; Displaced children's participation in political violence: towards greater understanding of mobilisation ~ Jason Hart; Between a rock and a hard place: negotiating age and identity in the UK asylum system ~ Heaven Crawley; Understanding silences and secrets when working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children ~ Ravi Kohli; Doing Britishness: multilingual practices, creativity and criticality of British Chinese children ~ Li Wei with Zhu Hua and Chao-Jung Wu; Closings in young children's disputes: resolution, dissipation and teacher intervention ~ Amelia Church; Keeping connected: textual cohesion and textual selves, how young people stay together online ~ Julia Davies; Conclusion: autonomy, dialogue and recognition ~ Nigel Thomas.

"Focusing on children who live at the margins of society, this book presents strong arguments for taking their knowledge, experience and wishes seriously as contributions to social and political decision making, and for creating spaces for children's autonomy." Professor Berry Mayall, Institute of Education, University of London

Nigel Thomas is Professor of Childhood and Youth Research at the University of Central Lancashire and co-director of The Centre, which promotes and researches children's and young people's participation, inclusion and empowerment.

• Introduction: Children, politics and communication ~ Nigel Thomas; Charting change in the participatory settings of childhood: a very modest beginning ~ Roger Hart; Children's autonomous organisation: reflections from the ground ~ Vicky Johnson; The children of Loxicha: participation beyond the UNCRC rhetoric? ~ Anne-Marie Smith; Displaced children's participation in political violence: towards greater understanding of mobilisation ~ Jason Hart; Between a rock and a hard place: negotiating age and identity in the UK asylum system ~ Heaven Crawley; Understanding silences and secrets when working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children ~ Ravi Kohli; Doing Britishness: multilingual practices, creativity and criticality of British Chinese children ~ Li Wei with Zhu Hua and Chao-Jung Wu; Closings in young children's disputes: resolution, dissipation and teacher intervention ~ Amelia Church; Keeping connected: textual cohesion and textual selves, how young people stay together online ~ Julia Davies; Conclusion: autonomy, dialogue and recognition ~ Nigel Thomas.

"Focusing on children who live at the margins of society, this book presents strong arguments for taking their knowledge, experience and wishes seriously as contributions to social and political decision making, and for creating spaces for children's autonomy." Professor Berry Mayall, Institute of Education, University of London

Nigel Thomas is Professor of Childhood and Youth Research at the University of Central Lancashire and co-director of The Centre, which promotes and researches children's and young people's participation, inclusion and empowerment.

• Introduction: Children, politics and communication ~ Nigel Thomas; Charting change in the participatory settings of childhood: a very modest beginning ~ Roger Hart; Children's autonomous organisation: reflections from the ground ~ Vicky Johnson; The children of Loxicha: participation beyond the UNCRC rhetoric? ~ Anne-Marie Smith; Displaced children's participation in political violence: towards greater understanding of mobilisation ~ Jason Hart; Between a rock and a hard place: negotiating age and identity in the UK asylum system ~ Heaven Crawley; Understanding silences and secrets when working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children ~ Ravi Kohli; Doing Britishness: multilingual practices, creativity and criticality of British Chinese children ~ Li Wei with Zhu Hua and Chao-Jung Wu; Closings in young children's disputes: resolution, dissipation and teacher intervention ~ Amelia Church; Keeping connected: textual cohesion and textual selves, how young people stay together online ~ Julia Davies; Conclusion: autonomy, dialogue and recognition ~ Nigel Thomas.

"Focusing on children who live at the margins of society, this book presents strong arguments for taking their knowledge, experience and wishes seriously as contributions to social and political decision making, and for creating spaces for children's autonomy." Professor Berry Mayall, Institute of Education, University of London