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Introduction Catherine Allerton, London School of Economics, UK -- 1. Different Childhoods, Different Ethnographies: Encounters in Rwanda Maja Haals Brosnan, London School of Economics, UK -- 2. "Difficult" Children: Ethnographic Chaos and Creativity in Migrant Malaysia Catherine Allerton -- 3. Paths to the Unfamiliar: Journeying with Children in Ecuadorian Amazonia Natalia Buitrón-Arias, London School of Economics, UK -- 4. The Exemplary Adult: Ethnographic Failure and Lessons from a Chinese School James Johnston, London School of Economics, UK -- 5. Learning to be a Child in Greater London Anne-Marie Sim, University of Oxford, UK -- 6. Questions and Curiosities, Ignorance and Understanding: Ethnographic Encounters with Children in Central India Peggy Froerer, Brunel University, UK -- 7. Protectors and Protected: Children, Parents and Infidelities in a Mexican Village Zorana Milicevic -- 8. Awkward Encounters: Authenticity and Artificiality in Rapport with Young Informants in China Ole Johannes Kaland, NLA University College, Norway -- 9. Growing Close Where Inequalities Grow Large? A Patron for Qur'anic Students in Nigeria Hannah Hoechner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium -- 10. Understanding the Indefensible: Reflections on Fieldwork with Child Prostitutes in Thailand Heather Montgomery, Open University, UK -- 11. Guide to Further Reading, Catherine Allerton -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractChildhood, though it is understood cross‐culturally in very different ways, always has a distinctive temporal framework, since children's growth and development cannot be undone. Yet, in many contexts, the times of childhood have become discordant with the rhythms, timescales, and temporal controls of migration. Focusing on the children of Indonesian and Filipino migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, this article explores the contemporary clash between the temporalities of migration and childhood. Children face separations and ruptures in shared time due to Malaysia's migration regime, and experience the temporariness of migrant life differently to their parents. Educational exclusion leads to temporal discontinuities between Malaysian‐citizen and migrant childhoods, and racialized understandings of national time emphasize the negative potentiality of migrants' children. Overall, the article argues for the importance of considering the interaction between the temporal conflicts of capitalism and forms of natural time such as childhood.

This article makes a case for attending to the specificities of child illegality in migrant contexts. This is not simply because children have been left out of previous accounts, but also because their status as minors makes both their citizenship and their illegality different to that of adults. The analysis is based on research with children born to migrants in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia. I argue that such children are configured as Sabah's impossible children, and that this configuration influences their experiences of illegality and exclusion in distinctive ways. From a young age, children are aware of document 'checking' raids and, as 'foreigners', are unable to attend Malaysian schools. However, informal documents from learning centres, as well as age and contingent circumstances, may give them a temporary, 'liminal' legality. Finally, given that irregular migrants experience both exclusion and inclusion in a host nation, the article describes children's urban forms of belonging. These forms of inclusion demonstrate children's engagement with Sabah as a home, as against their political construction as an impossible problem.

UNHCR's current #IBelong campaign presents stateless people as uniquely excluded, emphasising the need for legal solutions to their situation. Such approaches to statelessness sidestep both the complexities of lived experience, and the wider politics of state recognition. In response, this article utilises ethnographic data from Sabah, Malaysia, and theorisations of the grey areas between citizenship and statelessness, to argue for the fundamental connection between statelessness and irregularity. Such a connection is central to understanding both the everyday lives of potentially stateless people, and Sabah's public discourse on statelessness as a mirage obscuring the problems of 'illegals' and 'street children'.

This paper analyses two key aspects of Manggarai hospitality: the making of 'liveliness' and the making of guests. Liveliness is an affect produced at crowded and noisy events where stimulants and food are consumed. However, being lively is also an interpersonal quality demonstrated in everyday visiting. Having outlined the significance of liveliness, I examine the transformative role of hospitality substances and sounds in three key event‐types: those for affines, for wage labourers, and for spirits. I show how 'making guests' involves the entanglement of food, bodily substance, money, and speech, and allows important but potentially difficult exchanges to take place.RésuméLe présent article analyse deux aspects essentiels de l'hospitalité chez les Manggarai : faire de la « vivacité » et faire des invités. La vivacité est un affect produit lors d'événements bruyants, regroupant de nombreux participants, où l'on consomme des stimulants et de la nourriture. Mais être vivace, c'est aussi une qualité interpersonnelle qui se manifeste par des visites quotidiennes. Après avoir souligné l'importance de la vivacité, l'auteure examine le rôle transformatif des substances et des sons de l'hospitalité dans trois grands types d'événements : pour les proches, pour les employés et pour les esprits. Elle montre comment « faire des invités » suppose une imbrication de la nourriture, de la substance corporelle, de l'argent et de la parole et permet à des échanges importants mais potentiellement difficiles d'avoir lieu.

Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the "idian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms