Changing home, changing school: towards a research agenda on child migration

The purpose of this contribution is to draw attention to a particular sub-g roup of the population whose migration behaviour has been largely neglected by population geographers but whose activities are of sufficient extent an d consequence to require closer investigation. The paper outlines some evid ence of the magnitude and geography of internal and international child mig ration in Britain in the 1990s and argues that research might usefully focu s on the relationship between child migration and the school system, and th e implications of this interdependence for public policy.