To practice mobility-on a small scale

Abstract

Children's perspectives are practically absent in new mobility studies. In this arti-cle, I wish to describe and analyse how a number of children handle having to move between homes, parents and siblings, and how they practically, emotionally and socially navigate in this changeable landscape. My aim is to explore mobility as an embodied and emotional practice in which children employ different strate-gies. I focus on bodily micropractices, routines and coping strategies, the interme-diate space that occurs on their continual journeys, and the feeling of being dis-pensable. It is an ethnographic exploration of how mobile and domestic lives are intertwined-on a small scale.