Acknowledgements
We wish to thank Maria Prats Ferret, Mireia Baylina, Anna Ortiz Guitart, and M. Dolors Garcia Ramon and colleagues for hosting and organising such a successful Second International Conference on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in July 2009. We are grateful to Hugh Matthews for his support and to all the authors for their excellent contributions to this special issue.
Notes
The references here are an attempt to convey the diversity of existent research that could be couched within this theme and are not an exhaustive list.