Towards an anthropology of children and place / Karen Fog Olwig and Eva Gulløv -- Creating a natural place for children : an ethnographic study of Danish kindergartens / Eva Gulløv -- Restricted experiences in a conflict society : the local lives of Belfast children / Laura Gilliam -- The Smith children go out to school - and come home again : place-making among Kuku-Yalanji children in Southeast Cape York, Australia / Francine Lorimer -- How will the children come home? Emplacement and the creation of the social body in an Ethiopian returnee settlement / Laura Hammond -- Growing up between places of work and non-places of childhood : the uneasy relationship / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- Common neighbourhoods - diversified lives : growing up in urban Norway / Hilde Lidén -- Associationless children : inner-city sports and local society in Denmark / Sally Anderson -- Changing place, changing position : orphans' movements in a community with high HIV/AIDS prevalence in western Kenya / Erick Otieno Nyambedha and Jens Aagaard-Hansen -- Sweet and bitter places : the politics of schoolchildren's orientation in rural Uganda / Lotte Meinert -- 'Imagined communities' : the local community as a place for 'children's culture' and social participation in Norway / Anne Trine Kjørholt -- Children's places of belonging in immigrant families of Caribbean background / Karen Fog Olwig -- Epilogue : children's places / Vered Amit.