Table of Contents

1. Childhood, Migration and Biopolitics in Modern European History Beatrice Scutaru & Simone Paoli

Part I: Displacement

2. The Little People of the Exodus. French Children’s Experiences of War Mobility in Spring 1940
Camille Mahé

3. The (Bio)Politics of Relief: UN Food Policy Towards Displaced Children in Post-War Germany (1945-49)
Katherine Rossy

4. Catholic Humanitarianism and Transnational Adoptions of Orphaned Indian Youth (Belgium, 1970-1984)
Chiara Candaele

5. “Unaccompanied Children Who Disappear.” Precariously Mobile Children and the Humanitarian Regime of Deportation in Sweden
Maline Holmlund

Part II: Retention

6. “To Build and Be Built:” Jewish Displaced Children in Post-War Italy, 1943–48
Chiara Renzo

7. The Never Forgotten Romanian Children. Biopolitics, Humanitarian Aid and International Adoption
Luciana Marioara Jinga

8. Children on the Move in Europe, Between Biopolitics and Human Rights Protection
Snejana Sulima

9. Imprisoned to “Zoē”: Survival of Unaccompanied and Undocumented Afghan Minors in Istanbul
Nihan Bozok & Mehmet Bozok

Part III: Repatriation

10. The Portuguese State and its Emigrants: Policy and Practices in the Repatriation of Minors
Yvette Santos

11. Custody Battles for Unaccompanied Children of Presumed Ukrainian Origin under the UNRRA’s/IRO’s Care, 1945-49
Olga Gnydiuk

12. Biopolitics, the State, and Displacements of Children in France between the End of World War II and the Fall of the Empire, 1945-1970
Yves Denéchère

13. Child Migration Governance as Biopolitics: New Perspectives on Vulnerability and the Child’s Best Interest
Beatrice Scutaru & Simone Paoli