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  • Contributors

Anita Casavantes Bradford is associate professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California Irvine. Her first book, The Revolution is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959–1962, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014; her second book, Suffer the Little Children: Unaccompanied Migrant Children and the Geopolitics of Compassion in Postwar America, is under contract to University of North Carolina Press. She has published essays in Diplomatic History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Latin American Research Review, American Historical Review, Cuban Studies, US Catholic Historian, Perspectives on History, and Inside Higher Ed.

Joe Goddard is associate professor of American history at the Department of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen. His research projects have focused on the intersection of the city, the environment, and childhood since 1945. Goddard's most significant publications include Being American on the Edge: Penurbia and the Metropolitan Mind, 1945-2010 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Contemporary United States (with Russell Duncan, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). His recent articles and essays published internationally reflect on environmental perception and childhood.

Divya Kannan is an assistant professor in the Department of History, Shiv Nadar University, India, and the co-founder of the Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (theccysc.com).

Orna Naftali is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include childhood and youth, schooling and education, gender and the family, nationalism, and militarization in twentieth- and twenty-first-century China. She is the author of two books: Children, Rights, and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Children in China (Polity Press, 2016). Her current research examines constructions of war and the military in Chinese children's culture and education from 1949 to the present.

Chris Rasmussen is an assistant professor of history at the University of Guam. He has written on Cold War public diplomacy and American radio. He is currently working a project on post–World War II migration and Guam. [End Page 327]

Shurlee Swain is an emeritus professor at Australian Catholic University and a fellow of the Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Science in Australia. Her research has focused on the interactions of women and children and the welfare system. This article had its origin in a study of international child rescue discourse published as Child, Nation, Race and Empire: Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850–1915 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010). [End Page 328]

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