Introduction – Child Migration in Africa: Key Issues and New Perspectives, by Marie Rodet and Elodie Razy

PART I: CHILD MIGRANTS: BETWEEN VULNERABILITY AND AGENCY?

1. “An Ardent Desire to be Useful”: Senegalese Students, Religious Sisters and Migration for Schooling in France, 1824-1840 by Kelly Duke Bryant

2. Girl Pawns, Brides and Slaves: Child Trafficking in Southeastern Nigeria, 1920s by Robin P. Chapdelaine

PART II: BEING A CHILD AND BECOMING A GENDERED ADULT: THE CHALLENGES OF MIGRATIONS IN CHILDHOOD

3. “Bringing a Girl from the Village”: Gender, Child Migration and Domestic Service in Post-colonial Zambia by Sacha Hepburn

4. “I Will Never Become a Crocodile but I am Happy if I Eat Enough”: A Psychological Analysis of Child Fosterage and Resilience in Contemporary Mali by Paola Porcelli

5. Working as a “Boy”: Labour, Age and Masculinities in Togo, c. 1975-2005 by Marco Gardini – Marco Gardini

PART III: MOBILITY, IMAGINATION AND MAKING NATIONS

6. Childhood, Space and Memory: Migrations of the Métis in Central Highland Madagascar by Violaine Tisseau

7. “We Were Mixed with all Types”: Educational Migration in the Northern Territories of Colonial Ghana by Lacy S. Ferrell

8. India-South Africa Mobilities in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Minors, Immigration Encounters in Cape Town and Becoming South African by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie

9. Education, Migration and Nationalism: Mapping the School Days of the First Genderation of Southern Sudanese Nationalist Leaders, c. 1948-1972 by Hannah Whittaker with Harjyot Hayer

10. Child Narration as Device for Negotiation for Space and Identity Formation in Recent Nigerian Migrant Fiction by Oluwole Coker – Oluwole Coker