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vii Acknowledgments This book comes out of a January 2008 workshop held by the Working Group on Childhood and Migration in New York City funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. We are grateful to all the participants in the workshop for helping us develop the ideas expressed here, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for its support, and Union Theological Seminary for conference space. As the workshop papers developed into an edited volume, the enthusiasm of Michael Ames at Vanderbilt University Press pushed this project along. Two anonymous reviewers developed the chapters further with their generous advice and suggestions. Special thanks to Valerie Roybal for creating the artwork on the book’s cover. As anthropologists, we were each used to working in isolation from our colleagues, and so collaborating on a project of five people seemed a bit daunting. And yet it fell into place from the start: at the end of the workshop, some felt moved in one direction and some in another, such that the division of tasks was clear and easy. From that moment on, the process was smooth and harmonious, to our surprise and delight, as we shared drafts of the Introduction back and forth or spent long hours on conference calls; the volume represents the work of us all. So, last but by no means least, we are also deeply grateful to each other—for the respect, cheerfulness, persistence, flexibility, and intellectual seriousness with which we have each engaged in this joint endeavor. ...

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