| This study aims to contribute to an understanding of how children and young people themselves navigate the EU mobility space and the ways in which they construct a sense of belonging locally and transnationally. The empirical data for this explorative project will be collected using the SCB’s new database on children and their families in Sweden, as well as focus groups, qualitative interviews and participatory activities in places and spaces identified as important for migrant youths. Children’s age, gender are agency are central analytical concepts the project will apply when conceptualising mobility through various stages of the entire family life-course. In so doing, the study seeks to shed the light on the voices of children and young people as active participants of the European mobility space and as co-creators of relationships within this space, where loss and longing are central to how children navigate in a new society and negotiate their belonging. |