Abstract Against a background of rising adult mortality and morbidity in the context HIV/AIDS pandemic sub‐Saharan Africa, this paper provides both quantitative qualitative evidence for existence largely neglected group young people with increased responsibility caregiving. Using questionnaire surveys, focus groups, storyboards in‐depth interviews three studies across Southern Eastern Africa some Lesotho, Tanzania Zimbabwe are found to devote considerable time energy caring sick members...

This article examines the diverse ways in which southern African households/families employ children's migration as a strategy to enable them cope with impacts of HIV/AIDS. Based on qualitative research both guardians and migrant children, it explores how decisions are made concerning where children should live. Such aimed at meeting needs also using their capacities wider household needs. Hence strategies adopted often compromises, based sense obligation individual relatives, resources...

For some decades now, human geography has sought to engage with the narratives of those deemed least powerful in society. This interest experiences who have traditionally been sidelined from political agendas part move towards an increasingly critical approach social sciences, and ultimately as a way using academy tool for justice. Researching socially, politically economically marginalised groups people, is no longer new endeavour. What new, however, rapidity growth researchers seeking...

Previous geographical research with street children has principally focused on their micro-geographies in the city. This paper draws nomadic and episodic processes of homeless mobility, to explore children's geographies from a wider social, spatial temporal perspective. By examining life Kampala, Uganda as continued negotiation public/private street/non-street locations, fluid nature identity is illustrated. Over time, movement between spaces, such divergent city niches, institutions, homes...

Despite the recent significance children's geographies have been afforded within many geographical subdisciplines, their experiences of migration received relatively little attention. However, children do migrate and is often distinct from that entire households. In this paper we explore in southern Africa context HIV/AIDS pandemic, focusing particular on impacts moving house sociospatial experiences. Migration has consequences for several areas lives, nature those shaped by which takes...

Despite an emerging body of work on youth transitions, research has yet to explore the often unconventional routes adulthood for young people marginalised through poverty. By drawing interviews with 60 commercial sex workers in Ethiopia, this paper explores connections between poverty, migration and demonstrates that provides a risky alternative, but successful, path independence some rural–urban migrants. The concludes by offering recommendations policies seek support enabling them maintain...

Methods of participatory research have become popular among children's geographers as they are believed to enable young people speak openly about their lives in unthreatening contexts. In this article, we reflect on our experience using methods explore the sensitive topic (indirect) impacts AIDS people's livelihoods Malawi and Lesotho. We examine how different methodological approaches generate varying knowledges lived realities; challenges 'insider' 'outsider' assistants; place group-based...

Street youth have been part of South Africa’s cities since the 1980s, maintaining a visible and mobile presence. Contemporary adaptations to urban governance strategies in Cape Town resulted management practices that are creating challenges for street youth’s lives. This paper explores these which emerged through clean up city aimed at reducing presence on streets. Through an examination lives, this conceptualises four ways their mobilities changed, dramatically affecting everyday practices....

Abstract In this contribution we discuss the process of feedback and dissemination that adopted following research with children affected by AIDS in southern Africa. We outline our reasons for engaging detailed dissemination, distinguishing between active or passive processes participatory methods adopted. Through reflections consider as an obligation to participants a potential agent social change. addition evaluate effectiveness which were able truly incorporate voices young people...

Despite a wealth of research exploring street children's lives, this has tended to focus on the micro-scale, rarely drawing connections with wider society. Yet, it is rare for children sever all ties home and paper explores these by taking relational approach production life. Drawing in-depth qualitative 12 boys living streets in coastal suburb Cape Town, identifies that are part powerful inter- intra-generational relations connect them their families: interdependent but sometimes forced...

In recent years, anxieties have been expressed that the impacts of southern Africa's AIDS pandemic on young people today will damage their future livelihood prospects. Geographers remarkably reluctant to explore people's livelihoods, inspired by a concern view as human beings, worthy study in own right rather than mere becomings, interest only ‘adults making’. Yet there is growing acknowledgement people, like older are always both ‘being and becoming’. The connections between current lives...

Southern Africa's AIDS epidemic is profoundly spatially and temporally structured; so too are the lives of young people whose families it blights. In this paper we draw on qualitative research with AIDS-affected in Malawi Lesotho, recent work theorising time–space human geography, to examine how time–spaces AIDS-related sickness death intersect and, importantly, those their relations others produce differentiated outcomes for people. We also explore people's responses them. conclude that a...

In South Africa, the first stringent COVID-19 lockdown led to joblessness, poverty and isolation from protective social networks stripping many families of resources they needed care for children. Whilst widespread hardship was reported, this viewpoint teases out range experiences support policy-making future pandemics. The authors draw on findings National Income Dynamics Study: Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey projects that elicited children's perspectives. These sources reveal children...

Abstract Childhood is characterised by diversity and difference across within societies. Street children have a unique relationship to the urban environment evident through their use of city. The everyday geographies that street produce are diversified spaces they frequent activities engage in. Drawing on range children-centred qualitative methods, this article focuses children's space in Kampala, Uganda. demonstrates importance considering variables such as gender age analysis socio-spatial...

Abstract Since the emergence of AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, male mobility has been highlighted as one reasons for spread disease with men employing services commercial sex workers while away from home. However, workers' and implications this their access to prevention services, largely ignored. This paper, based on multi-method qualitative research 60 young two Ethiopian towns, reveals that are highly mobile, moving order attract a wider or different client base, adventure conceal...

Abstract This paper examines the various mechanisms by which alternative care giving occurs in context of AIDS pandemic southern Africa. High infection rates and clustering illness death among families communities, has resulted large numbers orphans coupled with an extended family support system is already over‐burdened some cases disintegrating. Drawing on a series case studies from qualitative research carried out young people, aged between 10 17 years, their guardians urban rural...

ABSTRACT Attempts to boost rural development in the Global South tend focus on ways which people can transform their lives. Interventions are often designed help overcome specific envisioned constraints and push individuals onto a pathway out of poverty. Research has contributed nuancing this vision by documenting non‐linearity pathways, results being left limbo or stuck, rather than moving forward. Based study two villages Malawi Lesotho, article argues that even these nuances do not fully...

This paper is based on a study with rural young people in Malawi and Lesotho, focusing their possibilities for accessing (self)employment the face of various constraints imposed by poor situations. Participatory group exercises, combined individual interviews two villages, provided personal stories about jobs businesses that were engaged in, as well previous experiences future plans. Constraints, enabling factors, working at both structural levels analysed. Policies intended to address needs...

Age is now considered alongside other differentiating categories for exploring mobility experiences, yet little work has emerged conceptualizing the im/mobilities of marginalized young people living in particularly difficult circumstances. This article, therefore, explores relational female sex workers Ethiopia aged between fourteen- and nineteen-years-old to understand how their livelihoods are shaped by connections relations with others, im/mobilities, survival everyday life. The article...

Social relationships, and the spaces through which they are encountered, integral to young people's construction of identity. How negotiate interactions with peers, family others is important for understanding who how fit into their communities. Although research within new social studies childhood has focused some extent on children's peer little attention been given particular dynamics inherent in relationships working children. This article therefore focuses lives commercial sex workers...

Marriage among African teenagers is currently a central focus of campaigns by UN agencies and international NGO s. Yet marriage has received only limited attention from geographers largely escaped the youth. In this paper we explore relational geographies age that underlie young people's motivations for, experiences of, in two rural settings with differing practices: matrilocal southern Malawi patrilocal Lesotho. We draw on participatory research activities life history interviews conducted...