Unaccompanied migrant children in Sicily: caught between international and humanitarian ideals and nativist populism.

This paper is predicated on scholar activism. Principally, it seeks to represent unaccompanied minors' (UAMs) narratives as a form of resistance. Working within a framework in which knowledge is understood as a vehicle for social action, and through the adoption of cocreation of an epistemological model, the paper challenges representations that portray unaccompanied minors as passive victims. The paper represents the lives, the views and experiences of UAMs as caught between international and humanitarian ideals and nativist populism. In its discussion of methodological approaches utilised in this study, the paper gives recognition to the sociology of childhood within a framework of scholar activism and child narratives. Based on data from in-depth qualitative interviews and focus groups with 50 UAMs from Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, and Bangladesh, this paper helps plug an important gap in the literature in the context of child well-being as related to this group of children. This study is part of a 25-nation research network focused on children's subjectivities around child well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]